Attributed To: CABINET DES MEDAILLES 390, P OF by BEAZLEY SIREN P by HAUSER
Decoration: A: ATHENA, HERAKLES AND DEIANEIRA WITH THE INFANT HYLLOS, OINEUS WITH STAFF (ALL NAMED) B: HERMES KILLING ARGOS (NAMED), DRAPED MAN WITH STAFF (ZEUS ?)
Last Recorded Collection: Paris, Musée du Louvre: G229
Previous Collections:
Unknown, private, Durand Collection
Publication Record: Annales d'histoire et d'Art et archeologie, Universite de Bruxelles: 17 (1995) 29, FIG.1 (A) Archeo, Attualita di Passato: 107 (JANUARY 1994) 63 (COLOUR OF PART OF A) Archäologischer Anzeiger: 1994, 376, FIG.3 (DRAWING OF PART OF B) Beazley, J.D., Attic Red-Figure Vase-Painters, 2nd edition (Oxford, 1963): 254.4 Beazley, J.D., Attic Red-Figure Vase-Painters, 2nd edition (Oxford, 1963): 289.3, 1642 Beazley, J.D., Attic Red-figure Vase-painters, 1st ed. (Oxford, 1942): 177.3 Beazley, J.D., Attische Vasenmaler des rotfigurigen Stils (Tübingen, 1925): 117.3, 471 Carpenter, T.H., with Mannack, T. and Mendonca, M., Beazley Addenda, 2nd edition (Oxford, 1989): 210 Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum: PARIS, LOUVRE 6, III.IC.34, III.IC.35, PLS.(423-425) 44.2, 45.5-7, 46.2 View Whole CVA Plates Flaceliere, R. and Devambez, P., Heracles, Images & Recits (Paris, 1966): PL.18 (A) Galinsky, G., The Herakles Theme (Oxford, 1972): PL.2, FIG.2 (A) Gerhard, E., Auserlesene Vasenbilder (Berlin, 1840-58): II, PL.116 (COLOUR DRAWING OF A, DRAWING OF B) Kahil, L. and Auge, C. and Linant de Bellefonds, P., Iconographie Classique et Identites Regionales, BCH Supp. 14 (Athens, 1986): 8, FIG.6 (B) Kéi, N., L'esthétique des fleurs, kosmos, poikilia et kharis dans la céramique attique du VIe et du Ve siècle av. n. ère, ICON 22 (Berlin and Boston, 2022): 217, FIG.168 (A) Lenormant, C. and de Witte, J., Elite des monuments ceramographiques (1837-61): III, PL.100 (COLOUR DRAWING OF A) Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae: IV, PL.558, HERAKLES 1676 (A) Monumenti inediti pubblicati dall'Instituto di Corrispondenza Archeologica (Rome, 1829-91): II, PL.59.5 (A) Neils, J. and Oakley, J.H. (eds.), Coming of Age in Ancient Greece, Images of Childhood from the Classical Past (New Haven, 2003): 93, FIG.6 (A) Pantheon: 40 (1982) 216, FIG.13 (PART OF A) Pottier, E., Vases antiques du Louvre (Paris, 1897-1922): PL.131
CAVI Lemma: RF pelike. From Vulci. Siren Painter. First quarter fifth.
CAVI Subject: A: Heracles receives the boy Hyllos from Deianeira; at left, Athena; at
right, Oineus. B: Heracles killing Argos; at right, a man.
CAVI Inscriptions: A: above Heracles' head: hερακλες. To left of Hyllos' face: hυλλος. Above
Deianeira's head: Δαιανειρα, retr.{1}. Οινευς{2}. B: hε[ρμες]. Πανοπ[τες],
retr.{3}.
CAVI Footnotes: {1} the first alpha is certain. {2} CVA prints a stemless digamma for the
epsilon. {3} it is unclear whether the word was left incomplete by the painter.
CAVI Number: 6514
AVI Bibliography: Photo (A). — Kretschmer (1894), 202. — J.D. Beazley, CVA Oxford 1, Great
Britain 3 (1927), under pl. 37,1 (mention). — E. Pottier, CVA Louvre 6, France 9
(1929), III I c, pls. 45,5-7 and 46,2. — ARV[2] (1963), 254/4, 289/3, 1642. —
Add.[2] (1989), 21.
CAVI / AVI Data from Henry Immerwahr's Corpus of Attic Vase Inscriptions (CAVI), updated by Rudoph Wachter's Attic Vase Inscriptions (AVI)