Attributed To: HIERON by SIGNATURE MAKRON by BEAZLEY
Decoration: A: SACRIFICE OF POLYXENE, NEOPTOLEMOS (BOTH NAMED), WITH SWORD, MEN, SOME DRAPED, WITH SPEARS B: MEN, SOME DRAPED, WITH SPEARS, ONE WITH SCEPTRE I: RANSOM OF HEKTOR, ACHILLES RECLINING WITH KNIFE, BODY OF HEKTOR UNDER KLINE, SHIELD DEVICE, GORGONEION
Last Recorded Collection: Paris, Musée du Louvre: G153
Publication Record: Beazley, J.D., Attic Red-Figure Vase-Painters, 2nd edition (Oxford, 1963): 460.14, 481 Beazley, J.D., Attische Vasenmaler des rotfigurigen Stils (Tübingen, 1925): 212.8 Bonnechere, P., and Gagne, R. (eds.), Sacrifices humains, Perspectives croisees et representations, Human sacrifice, Cross-cultural perspectives and representations (Liege, 2013): PL.8A (A) Burn, L. and Glynn, R., Beazley Addenda (Oxford, 1982): 120 Carpenter, T.H., with Mannack, T. and Mendonca, M., Beazley Addenda, 2nd edition (Oxford, 1989): 244 Gebauer, J., Pompe und Thysia, attische Tieropferdarstellungen auf schwarz- und rotfigurigen Vasen (Münster, 2002): 786, FIG.305 (I) Giuliani, L., Image and myth, a history of pictorial narration in Greek art (Chicago, 2013): 153, FIG.35 (I) Hedreen, G., Capturing Troy, The Narrative Functions of Landscape in Archaic and Early Classical Greek Art (Ann Arbor, 2001): FIG.11 (B) Journal of Hellenic Studies: 117 (1997) PL.8B (I) Kunisch, N., Makron (Mainz, 1997): 67, FIG.30.169, PL.61.169 (I, A, B, AH) Kurtz, D.C. (ed.), Greek Vases, Lectures by J.D. Beazley (Oxford, 1989): 69.1-2, 70.1 (A, B, I) Numismatica e Antichita Classiche, Quaderni Ticinesi: 23 (1994) 42, FIG.7 (I) Pottier, E., Vases antiques du Louvre (Paris, 1897-1922): I, PL.122 Revue des Etudes Anciennes: 99 (1997) 2, 87, FIG.10 (A) Siftar, L., Das Phänomen der unvollständigen Gestalt in der griechischen Kunst, Unterschiedliche Facetten eines besonderen Darstellungsmittels (Heidelberg, 2018): 863, DADA257 (I)
CAVI Lemma: RF cup. From Italy. Makron. First quarter fifth. Hauptwerk I (Kunisch).
CAVI Subject: Int.: Achilles with the body of Hector. A-B: Sacrifice of Polyxena.
CAVI Inscriptions: A: Neoptolemus and Polyxena alone have their names inscribed (Beazley). The
drs. show two frs. only (probably from Pottier?): Ext.: to left of head of
warrior to right: [Nεοπτολε]μος. To right and left of woman's head to right:
[Π]ολοχσε^ν[ε], retr.{1}. On handle A/B, in the right hasta, in red: [h]ιερον
[επ]οιεσεν{2}.
CAVI Footnotes: {1} so my note; for [Π]ολυχσεν[ε]. {2} from the sketch, Kunisch, p. 178, but
there is no indication that an initial heta is lost (complete fore?]. A single
interpoint between the words is shown in ARV[2] and is accepted by Cohen, n.
142, who lists two examples of double interpoints in Hieron signatures. Kunisch
8 n. 38 however thinks the inscription is too poorly preserved to be sure of
this. ARV[2] also states that the signature is in red, with reference to Bull.
Vereen. 29, 12-15.
CAVI Comments: + Florence no no. (Guy). Type B. For the signatures of Hieron, see the
bibliography under Louvre G 141. For the Dip. signatures see esp. Cohen 70 and
n. 128 and Kunisch 8. Attic alphabet with four-stroke sigma. Another signature
of Hieron in red mentioned in ARV[2] is Florence 3929 (460/15).
CAVI Number: 6491
AVI Bibliography: drs. — Beazley (1954b), 12-15. — ARV[2] (1963), 460/14, 481. — Add.[2]
(1989), 244 (bibl.). — Beazley (1989), 89-90, pls. 69,1-2, 70,1. — Cohen (1991),
93 n. 142. — LIMC vii (1994), 433, Polyxene 24. — Papadakis (1994), 91/A 52;
100f.; 137/B 31; 155f. — Kunisch (1997), 6, 8 n. 38, 100 n. 402, 127 n. 592,
178/169, pl. 61.
CAVI / AVI Data from Henry Immerwahr's Corpus of Attic Vase Inscriptions (CAVI), updated by Rudoph Wachter's Attic Vase Inscriptions (AVI)
