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302051, ATHENIAN, London, British Museum, London, British Museum, 1837,0609.52

  • Vase Number: 302051
  • Fabric: ATHENIAN
  • Technique: BLACK-FIGURE
  • Shape Name: HYDRIA
  • Provenance: ITALY, ETRURIA, VULCI
  • Date: -550 TO -500
  • Inscriptions: Inscription: TELOHYYS, KONON
    Named: SIMOS, KLEITA
  • Attributed To: LEAGROS GROUP by BEAZLEY
    SIMOS GROUP by BEAZLEY
  • Decoration: Body: MAN IN PETASOS MOUNTING CHARIOT (NAMED), WOMAN HOLDING SPEAR (NAMED), DOG, INSCRIPTIONS
    Shoulder: HERAKLES AND THE BULL BETWEEN ATHENA TWICE, SEATED ON BLOCKS, HERMES SEATED ON BLOCK, WARRIOR (?)
  • Last Recorded Collection: London, British Museum: B309
  • Previous Collections:
    • London, British Museum: 1837,0609.52
  • Publication Record: Beazley, J.D., Attic Black-Figure Vase-Painters (Oxford, 1956): 364.56, 356
    Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum: LONDON, BRITISH MUSEUM 6, III.H.E.5, PLS.(337,340) 78.2, 81.2 View Whole CVA Plates
    Giudice, E. and Giudice, G. (eds.), Studi Miscellanei di Ceramografia Greca VII (Catania, 2021): 170, PL.5.9, 171, PL.6.10B (BD, COLOUR OF PART OF BD)
    Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae: V, PL.75, HERAKLES 2323 (S)
  • AVI Web: HTTPS://WWW.AVI.UNIBAS.CH/DB/SEARCHFORM.HTML?ID=4450
  • AVI Record Number: 4278
  • LIMC ID: 21314
  • LIMC Web: HTTP://ARK.DASCH.SWISS/ARK:/72163/080E-74D1A4F078FA0-5
  • British Museum Link: HTTPS://WWW.BRITISHMUSEUM.ORG/COLLECTION/OBJECT/G_1837-0609-52
  • CAVI Collection: LONDON B 309.
  • CAVI Lemma: BF HYDRIA. FROM VULCI. LEAGROS GROUP (SIMOS GROUP). LAST QUARTER SIXTH. 510-500.
  • CAVI Subject: SHOULDER: HERACLES AND THE CRETAN BULL. BODY: MAN MOUNTING A CHARIOT.
  • CAVI Inscriptions: SHOULDER: SOME DOTS TO RIGHT OF IOLAUS AND BEHIND HERMES. BODY: IN FRONT OF THE MAN'S FACE: Σιμος. THE WOMAN HOLDING HIS SPEAR: Κλειτα, COMPLETE{1}. TO HER RIGHT, ABOVE AND BELOW THE HORSES BELLIES: ΤελοHυυς = Τελ[λ]ο Hυυς(?){2}. TO RIGHT OF THE HORSES' BELLIES: Κ.ΟNΟΥ{3}. UNDER THE FOOT, GR.: AN INCISED CHARACTER (CVA): SIGLUM OF BETA PIERCED BY A HORIZONTAL UPSILON, SEE JOHNSTON (1979), 127/5E,13 AND HACKL (1909), 516.
  • CAVI Footnotes: {1} SO ABV; CVA SUGGESTS Κλειτα[γορας], BUT THERE IS NO ROOM FOR THE REST OF THE NAME. {2} SO ABV; I DO NOT KNOW TO WHOM THIS WOULD REFER; PERHAPS NONSENSE (BUT LISTED AS Hυυς IN THREATTE (1996), 221). ANOTHER TELLOS APPEARS IN HDT. 1.30. {3} ABV; CVA HAS WHAT LOOKS LIKE AN INCOMPLETE PI INSTEAD OF THE DOT.
  • CAVI Comments: LGPN II HAS Σιμος, Κλειτα AND Τελης (NOT Τελλος). BOECKH READ Κλειτα[γορας], Τηλ(εκλη)ς, AND Κ[ρ?]ονων.
  • CAVI Number: 4278
  • AVI Bibliography: CIG 4 (1855–77), NO. 7643. — H.B. WALTERS IN BM CAT. B (1893), 179. — H.B. WALTERS, CVA LONDON 6, GREAT BRITAIN 8 (1931), III H E, PLS. 78,2 AND 81,2. — ABV (1956), 364/56. — ATTSCR (1990), NO. 442.
  • CAVI / AVI Data from Henry Immerwahr's Corpus of Attic Vase Inscriptions (CAVI), updated by Rudoph Wachter's Attic Vase Inscriptions (AVI)
  • Pleiades URI: HTTPS://PLEIADES.STOA.ORG/PLACES/413393
  • Coordinates: 42.421429,11.702499
  • Pleiades Coordinates: 42.419009,11.6298975
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