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217074, ATHENIAN, London, Victoria and Albert Museum, London, Victoria and Albert Museum, 666.64

  • Vase Number: 217074
  • Fabric: ATHENIAN
  • Technique: RED-FIGURE
  • Shape Name: CUP
  • Date: -450 TO -400
  • Inscriptions: Named: OURANIA, KALLIOPE, MOSAIOS
  • Attributed To: CALLIOPE P by BEAZLEY
  • Decoration: A,B: DRAPED YOUTHS WITH LYRES, WOMEN WITH OINOCHOAI AND PHIALAI, BAG (?) SUSPENDED
    I: APOLLO WITH LYRE, KALLIOPE (NAMED) WITH PHIALE AND OINOCHOE
  • Last Recorded Collection: London, Victoria and Albert Museum: 666.1864
  • Previous Collections:
    • London, Victoria and Albert Museum: 666.64
  • Publication Record: Antike Kunst: 31 (1988) PL.20.1.3.5(I, A, B)
    Beazley, J.D., Attic Red-Figure Vase-Painters, 2nd edition (Oxford, 1963): 1259.4
    Beazley, J.D., Attische Vasenmaler des rotfigurigen Stils (Tübingen, 1925): 427.2
    Carpenter, T.H., with Mannack, T. and Mendonca, M., Beazley Addenda, 2nd edition (Oxford, 1989): 355
    Giudice, F. and Panvini, R. (eds.), Il greco, il barbaro e la ceramica attica, Immaginario del diverso, processi di scambio e autorappresentazione degli indigeni, Volume primo, Atti del Convegno Internazionale di studi, 14-19 maggio 2001, Catania, Caltanisetta, Gela, Camarina, Vittoria, Siracusa (Rome, 2010): 59, FIG.3 (I)
    Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae: VI, PL.396, MOUSA, MOUSAI 91 (A, B)
    Lezzi-Hafter, A., Der Eretria-Maler, Werke und Weggefährten (Mainz, 1988): 75, FIG.19A, PL.84, NO.123 (INCLUDING PROFILE)
  • AVI Web: HTTPS://WWW.AVI.UNIBAS.CH/DB/SEARCHFORM.HTML?ID=4930
  • AVI Record Number: 4754
  • LIMC ID: 18796
  • LIMC Web: HTTP://ARK.DASCH.SWISS/ARK:/72163/080E-74ADD4D881AF3-8
  • CAVI Collection: LONDON, VICTORIA AND ALBERT MUSEUM 666.1864.
  • CAVI Lemma: RF CUP. CALLIOPE PAINTER{1}. THIRD QUARTER FIFTH.
  • CAVI Subject: INT.: THE MUSE CALLIOPE WITH PHIALE AND OINOCHOE AND A YOUTH WITH A LYRE. A: THE MUSE CALLIOPE GIVING A LYRE TO A YOUTH; THE MUSE OURANIA WITH PHIALE AND OINOCHOE AND A WREATHED YOUTH WITH A LYRE. B: THE YOUTH MUSAEUS WITH A MUSE WITH PHIALE AND OINOCHOE; A YOUTH RECEIVING A LYRE FROM A MUSE. ALL YOUTHS ARE WREATHED, MOSTLY WITH LAUREL. I THINK SOME OF THE YOUTHS ARE BEING PRESENTED WITH LYRES BY MUSES.
  • CAVI Inscriptions: INT.: ...{2}. A: Ουρανι̣α̣. ABOVE THE HEADS OF KALLIOPE AND APOLLO, FOLLOWING THE CURVE OF THE MARGIN AND WELL CENTERED ABOVE THE HEADS: Καλλιοπε. THE YOUTHS ARE NOT NAMED. B: AT LEFT, A YOUTH AND A MUSE WITH OINOCHOE AND PHIALE. AT RIGHT, MUSAEUS RECEIVING A LYRE FROM A MUSE. TO LEFT AND RIGHT OF THE RIGHT YOUTH'S HEAD: κα^λος. IN THE SAME POSITION FOR MUSAEUS: Μο^σαι^[ο]ς{3}.
  • CAVI Footnotes: {1} COMPANION OF THE ERETRIA PAINTER. {2} THE TEXT FOR THE INT. HAS DROPPED OUT. {3} SO RICHTER (1939); ALSO L.-H.
  • CAVI Comments: = 666.64 (SO CITED OFTEN). ON THE IDENTIFICATION OF THE YOUTHS AND THE QUESTION OF WHETHER APOLLO IS INVOLVED, SEE L.-H. 142-43. MIXED ALPHABET.
  • CAVI Number: 4754
  • AVI Bibliography: PHOTO (INT.). — RICHTER (1939), 4 N. 3 (MENTION). — BLöSCH (1940), 133/30. — SIMON (1953), 46/81. — ARV[2] (1963), 1259/4. — BROMMER (1973), 536/B 5. — MASSEI (1973), 464. — LEZZI-HAFTER (1988), 142F., 326F./123 [[WITH FACSS.]], PL. 84 [[INT. Καλλιόπε SM., REST INVIS.]]. — QUEYREL (1988), 91/3, 92 N. 9, PL. 20,1,3,5. — ADD.[2] (1989), 355.
  • 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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Last updated 15/12/2025 05:43:00. Approved by Mannack, Thomas. Copyright © 2003-2026 Classical Art Research Centre, University of Oxford.

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