Decoration: Body: ODYSSEUS, TIED TO MAST OF SHIP, AND THE SIRENS, ON ROCK, ONE PLAYING LYRE, ONE PIPES (ALL NAMED)
Last Recorded Collection: New York (N.Y.), Callimanopoulos
Previous Collections:
Luzern, market, Ars Antiqua
Djursholm, private, Holst
London, market, Christie's
Publication Record: Andreae, B. et al., Ulisse, il mito e la memoria (Rome, 1996): 101, NO.5 (PART) Beazley, J.D., Paralipomena (Oxford, 1971): 183.22BIS Boardman, J., Athenian Black Figure Vases (London, 1974): FIG.286 (PART) Brommer, F., Odysseus (Darmstadt, 1983): PL.33A Carpenter, T.H., with Mannack, T. and Mendonca, M., Beazley Addenda, 2nd edition (Oxford, 1989): 110 Christie, Manson and Woods, sale catalogue: 8.6.1988, FRONTCOVER, 27, NO.34 (COLOUR) Cohen, B. (ed.), The Odyssey in Ancient Art. An Epic in Word and Image (New York, 1992): 116, NO.38 Lulof, P. and Rescigno, C. (eds.), Deliciae Fictiles IV, Architectural Terracottas in Ancient Italy, Images of Gods, Monsters and Heroes, Proceedings of the International Conference held in Rome (Museo Nazionale Etusco di Villa Giulia, Royal Netherlands Institute) and Syracuse (Museo Archeologico Regionale Paolo Orsi), October 21-25, 2009 (Oxford, 2011): 51, FIG.1 (PART OF BD) Siftar, L., Das Phänomen der unvollständigen Gestalt in der griechischen Kunst, Unterschiedliche Facetten eines besonderen Darstellungsmittels (Heidelberg, 2018): 275, FIG.14.6, 853, DADA21 (DRAWING, PART) Touchefeu-Meynier, O., Themes Odysseens dans l'Art Antique (Paris, 1968): PL.23.3, 4
CAVI Lemma: BF oinochoe. Unattributed; Keyside Class. First quarter fifth.
CAVI Subject: Odysseus and the Sirens: at left, three sirens on a rock, one with a lyre; at
right, the forepart of a ship; at the far right, Odysseus tied to the mast.
CAVI Inscriptions: Above the sirens: σερεν. To their lower right: σ(ε)ρεν{1}. To left of
Odysseus' lower middle: Ολυτ[τ]-ε-υς{2}. Starting from his mouth and to right of
the sail: λῦσ[ο]ν, retr.{3}.
CAVI Footnotes: {1} The letters are clear, except that the first epsilon seems to lack the
bottom horizontal. The reading given by Gropengiesser is σερεν (not σιρεν). The
photo in Ars Ant. confirms this, if we mean the inscription below the lyre. She
seems to mention only the one occurrence of `siren', if my note is correct. {2}
- indicates wider spacing. {3} Rendered ΓΥΣN by Schauenburg in the text (i.e.
the retr. is not mentioned), but later explained by him as λῦσον.
CAVI Number: 7497
AVI Bibliography: Schauenburg (1962), 31/130, pl. 42 (exc. picture). — Para. (1971), 183/22
bis. — Boardman (1974), fig. 286. — Gropengiesser (1977), 591f., n. 33 and 600
n. 65. — Add.[2] (1989), 110.
CAVI / AVI Data from Henry Immerwahr's Corpus of Attic Vase Inscriptions (CAVI), updated by Rudoph Wachter's Attic Vase Inscriptions (AVI)
