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300751, ATHENIAN, London, British Museum, London, British Museum, London, British Museum, 1888,0601.441

  • Vase Number: 300751
  • Fabric: ATHENIAN
  • Technique: BLACK-FIGURE
  • Shape Name: LEBES, FRAGMENTS
  • Provenance: EGYPT, NAUCRATIS
  • Date: -575 TO -525
  • Inscriptions: Named: LYKOPIS
    Named: P]ELAGON
  • Attributed To: ACROPOLIS 601, P OF by BEAZLEY
  • Decoration: A: AMAZONOMACHY, AMAZON FALLING WITH BOEOTIAN SHIELD (NAMED)
    B: WARRIOR (NAMED ?)
  • Last Recorded Collection: London, British Museum: B601.13
  • Previous Collections:
  • Publication Record: Beazley, J.D., Attic Black-Figure Vase-Painters (Oxford, 1956): 80.2
    Hirayama, T., Kleitias and Attic Black-Figure Vases in the Sixth-Century B.C. (Tokyo, 2010): PL.32C-D
  • AVI Web: HTTPS://WWW.AVI.UNIBAS.CH/DB/SEARCHFORM.HTML?ID=4527
  • AVI Record Number: 4355
  • LIMC ID: 6042
  • LIMC Web: HTTP://ARK.DASCH.SWISS/ARK:/72163/080E-73F92A7784D62-4
  • British Museum Link: HTTPS://WWW.BRITISHMUSEUM.ORG/COLLECTION/OBJECT/G_1888-0601-441
  • CAVI Collection: LONDON B 601.13.
  • CAVI Lemma: FRS. OF BF LEBES GAMIKOS OR THE LIKE (BEAZLEY). FROM NAUKRATIS. PAINTER OF ACROPOLIS 601. EARLY SECOND QUARTER SIXTH.
  • CAVI Subject: A: AMAZONOMACHY: FROM THE LOWER RIGHT-HAND CORNER: A FALLEN AMAZON AND FOOT OF ANOTHER, RUNNING. B: FROM THE LEFT PART OF THE PICTURE: PARTS OF TWO WARRIORS RUNNING{1}.
  • CAVI Inscriptions: A: UNDER THE SHIELD OF THE FALLEN AMAZON: Λυκοπις, RETR.{2}. B: BETWEEN THE WARRIORS: Π]ε̣λαγον, RETR.{3}.
  • CAVI Footnotes: {1} BOTHMER HAS SHOWN THAT THE TWO FRS. ARE NOT FROM THE SAME SIDE (ABV). {2} LYKOPIS OCCURS ON TWO CUPS BY OLTOS [BERLIN 2263 AND LONDON E 18],EACH TIME AS THE NAME OF AN AMAZON WHO ESCAPES FROM A BATTLE WITH HERACLES; PERHAPS THE NAME HERE REFERS TO THE RUNNING AMAZON RATHER THAN THE FALLEN ONE (BOTHMER). {3} PELAGON IS COMPARED BY JOHNSTON TO THE "LESS HELLENIZED" ARCHER KIMMERIOS ON THE FRANçOIS VASE.
  • CAVI Comments: TWO FRS. B. AND P. POINT OUT THAT THE STYLE IS VERY MUCH LIKE THAT OF THE FRANçOIS VASE.
  • CAVI Number: 4355
  • AVI Bibliography: BEAZLEY–PAYNE (1929), 262/31, PLS. 16,6 AND 17. — ABV (1956), 80/2, 682. — BOTHMER (1957), 9/40, PL. 19,2. — JOHNSTON (1978C), NO. 29 (NOT ILL.).
  • 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/727169
  • Coordinates: 30.954058,30.522766
  • Pleiades Coordinates: 30.900508,30.5919275
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Last updated 15/12/2025 06:22:00. Approved by Mannack, Thomas. Copyright © 2003-2026 Classical Art Research Centre, University of Oxford.

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