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300781, ATHENIAN, Boston (MA), Museum of Fine Arts, 21.21

  • Vase Number: 300781
  • Fabric: ATHENIAN
  • Technique: BLACK-FIGURE
  • Shape Name: AMPHORA, NECK
  • Date: -575 TO -525
  • Inscriptions: Named: ACHILLEUS, THETIS, KYMATOTHEA, NEOTOLEME, PANOPE
  • Attributed To: CAMTAR P by BEAZLEY
  • Decoration: A: ARMS OF ACHILLES, THETIS HOLDING BOEOTIAN SHIELD, DEVICE, GORGONEION, OLD MAN, WOMEN HOLDING CORSLET, GREAVES AND HELMET (NAMED)
    B: WARRIORS, DEVICES, ROSETTE, CRESCENT
  • Last Recorded Collection: Boston (MA), Museum of Fine Arts: 21.21
  • Publication Record: Barringer, J.M., Divine Escorts, Nereids in Archaic and Classical Greek Art (Ann Arbor, 1995): PLS.1-2 (A, B)
    Beazley, J.D., Attic Black-Figure Vase-Painters (Oxford, 1956): 84.3
    Beazley, J.D., Paralipomena (Oxford, 1971): 31
    Brinkmann, V. and Wünsche, R. (eds.), Bunte Götter, Die Farbigkeit Antiker Skulptur (Munich, 2004): 54, FIG.72 (DRAWING OF PART OF A)
    Carpenter, T.H., Art and Myth in Ancient Greece (London, 1991): FIG.298 (DRAWING OF A)
    Carpenter, T.H., with Mannack, T. and Mendonca, M., Beazley Addenda, 2nd edition (Oxford, 1989): 23
    Christiansen, J. and Melander, T., Proceedings of the 3rd Symposium on Ancient Greek and Related Pottery, Copenhagen 31.8.-4.9.87 (Copenhagen, 1988): 394, FIG.2 (A)
    Classical Antiquity: 12 (1993) FIG.6 AT P.218 (A)
    Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum: BOSTON, MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS 1, 12-13, FIG.18, PLS.(638,639) 16.1-3, 17.3-4 View Whole CVA Plates
    Giuliani, L., Image and myth, a history of pictorial narration in Greek art (Chicago, 2013): 107, FIG.22 (A)
    Grabow, E., Schlangenbilder in der griechischen schwarzfigurigen Vasenkunst (Paderborn, 1998): PL.30.K172 (PART)
    Hirayama, T., Kleitias and Attic Black-Figure Vases in the Sixth-Century B.C. (Tokyo, 2010): FIG.22J (A)
    Knittlmayer, B., Die Attische Demokratie und ihre Helden, Darstellungen des trojanischen Sagenkreises im 6. und frühen 5. Jh.v.Chr. (Heidelberg, 1997): PL.8 (A, B)
    Kressirer, K., Das Greisenalter in der griechischen Antike. Untersuchung der Vasenbilder und Schriftquellen der archaischen und klassischen Zeit (Hamburg, 2016): 825, NO.7 (PART OF A)
    Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae: VII, 105, PANOPE 1 (PART OF A)
    Lissarrague, F., L'Autre Guerrier, Archers, Peltastes, Cavaliers dans l'Imagerie Attique (Paris-Rome, 1990): 44, FIG.15 (DRAWING OF A)
    Schefold, K., Götter- und Heldensagen der Griechen in der Früh- und Hocharchaischen Kunst (Munich, 1993): 300, FIG.324 (A)
    Thesaurus Cultus et Rituum Antiquorum: VIII, PL.15.4 (A)
  • AVI Web: HTTPS://WWW.AVI.UNIBAS.CH/DB/SEARCHFORM.HTML?ID=2937
  • AVI Record Number: 2789
  • LIMC ID: 10789
  • LIMC Web: HTTP://ARK.DASCH.SWISS/ARK:/72163/080E-743C6AB825142-E
  • CAVI Collection: BOSTON 21.21.
  • CAVI Lemma: BF NECK AMPHORA. CAMTAR PAINTER. SECOND QUARTER SIXTH.
  • CAVI Subject: A: ACHILLES RECEIVING HIS ARMOR FROM THETIS. B: WARRIORS.
  • CAVI Inscriptions: A: Αχιλ[λ]ευ[ς]. Θετις, RETR. Κυματ̣οθεα, RETR. ABOVE THE HEAD OF A NEREID: Nεοτολεμε, .I.E., Nεο[π]τ̣ολεμε? A THIRD NEREID: Π̣αν̣οπε, THE FIRST LETTER NOT A PHI.
  • CAVI Comments: CARTWHEEL THETA.
  • CAVI Number: 2789
  • AVI Bibliography: ABV (1956), 84/3. — PARA. (1971), 31. — H. HOFFMANN ET AL., CVA BOSTON 1, USA 14 (1973), PLS. 16 AND 17,3-4. — ADD.[2] (1989), 23. — ATTSCR (1990), NO. 988.
  • 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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