Attributed To: EUPHRONIOS by SIGNATURE ONESIMOS by UNKNOWN
Decoration: A,B: AMAZONOMACHY I: MEDEA AND THE RAM
Last Recorded Collection: Malibu (CA), The J. Paul Getty Museum: 79.AE.19
Previous Collections:
Malibu (CA), The J. Paul Getty Museum: 79.AE.17
Publication Record: J. Paul Getty Museum Journal: 9 (1981), 6-14, FIGS.1-7 Metropolitan Museum Journal: 26 (1991), 68-69, FIGS.31-32 Meyer, H., Medeia und die Peliaden (Rome, 1980): PL.8.1 (DRAWING OF I) PHOTOGRAPH(S) IN THE BEAZLEY ARCHIVE: 6 (I, A, B)
CAVI Lemma: Fragmentary RF cup. Onesimos. Euphronios, potter. Early fifth.
CAVI Subject: Int.: Medea and the daughters of Pelias. A-B: Amazonomachy with Heracles and
Telamon.
CAVI Inscriptions: Int.: above the heads, along the margin: [Ευφρονιος επο]ι̣εσεν{2}. Ext.:
[Τε]λα[μο]ν{3}. h[---]{4}. On one handle fr., Gr.: [Ε]υφρονιος, retr.{5}. On the
other, Gr.: εποιεσεν{6}.
CAVI Footnotes: {1} changed from the wrong no. 17.+ {2} I am not certain that there is a
trace of the iota extant; see GettyMusJ, figs. 7i and 8. {3} on 82.AE.33, fr. 3.
{4} on fr. 9. {5} fig. 9, upside down. {6} fig. 10. The reconstruction on p. 17
is incorrect.
CAVI Comments: + 82.AE.33. + frs. added by Bothmer. Ohly-Dumm considers the Gr. signature
false; Williams agrees. Cohen restores it as on one handle, each word starting
from the outer end of the handle toward the root, the potter's name being
retrograde. Thus the signature differs fom the Gr. signature of Euphronios on
the handle of London E 44, where both words start from the handle root of one
handle and retr. is avoided. [The handwriting is also different. It is very
coarse.] The problem with Cohen's reconstruction is that both words face out
rather than toward each other. I had therefore assumed that the two words on the
Malibu cup were on opposite handles and written from the outside toward the cup.
The inscription could be read easily by someone holding the cup by both handles
and lifting it to drink from. In either case, it is unlikely that the words were
written on the frs., and the signature is surely genuine. See also AttScr. The
fragments with the inscriptions on the Exterior are new and unpublished. The
rendering in Add.[2] is not accurate.
CAVI Number: 4936
AVI Bibliography: Ohly-Dumm (1981), 5-21, figs. 1-9, p. 17. — Bothmer (1982), 46 (cited as
79.AE.17.11, which is either wrong or perhaps the number of a handle fr.). —
Add.[2] (1989), 404. — AttScr (1990), no. 515. — Cohen (1991), 68-69, figs.
31-32. — D. Williams (1991), .... n. 14.
CAVI / AVI Data from Henry Immerwahr's Corpus of Attic Vase Inscriptions (CAVI), updated by Rudoph Wachter's Attic Vase Inscriptions (AVI)
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