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300767, ATHENIAN, Athens, National Museum, Athens, National Museum, Athens, National Museum, Acropolis Collection, 15166

  • Vase Number: 300767
  • Fabric: ATHENIAN
  • Technique: BLACK-FIGURE
  • Shape Name: KANTHAROS, FRAGMENTS
  • Provenance: GREECE, ATHENS, ACROPOLIS
  • Date: -575 to -525
  • Inscriptions: NEARCHOS
    Named: ACHILEUS, CHAITOS, EUPHOIAS
    Named: HEPHAISTOS
    Signature: NEARCHOSMEGRAPHSEN KA[POIESEN]
  • Attributed To: NEARCHOS by SIGNATURE
  • Decoration: A: HARNESSING OF THE CHARIOT OF ACHILLES (NAMED), HORSES (NAMED), MAN, WOMAN HOLDING SHIELD AND SPEARS (THETIS ?)
    B: GODS AND GODDESSES, HERMES, HEPHAISTOS (NAMED)
  • Last Recorded Collection: Athens, National Museum, Acropolis Collection: 1.611
  • Previous Collections:
    • Athens, National Museum: 15166
    • Athens, National Museum: 15155
  • Publication Record: Albersmeier, S. (ed.), Heroes, Mortals and Myths in ancient Greece (Baltimore, 2009): 42, FIG.13 (A)
    Beazley, J.D., Attic Black-Figure Vase-Painters (Oxford, 1956): 82.1
    Beazley, J.D., Paralipomena (Oxford, 1971): 30
    Boardman, J., The history of Greek vases, potters, painters and pictures (London, 2001): 55, FIG.65
    Bothmer, D. von, The Amasis Painter and his World (Malibu, 1985): 39, FIG.22 (PART)
    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): 396, FIGS.4-5
    Classical Antiquity: 12 (1993) FIG.9 AT P.218
    Crouwel, J.H., Chariots and other Wheeled Vehicles in Iron Age Greece, Allard Pierson Series 9 (Amsterdam, 1992): PL.9.2 (DRAWING OF PART OF A)
    Filser, W., Die Elite Athens auf der attischen Luxuskeramik, Image & Context 16 (Berlin, Munich, Boston, 2017): 97, PL.6 (COLOUR)
    Hesperia, The Journal of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens: 4 (1935) 227, FIG.15.6 (PART)
    Hirayama, T., Kleitias and Attic Black-Figure Vases in the Sixth-Century B.C. (Tokyo, 2010): FIG.17A (PART)
    Hurwit, J.M., Artists and Signatures in Ancient Greece (Cambridge, 2015): 78, FIG.38
    Jahreshefte des Österreichischen Archäologischen Instituts in Wien: 61 (1991/92) 1, 51, FIG.6
    Kaltsas, N. (ed.), Athens-Sparta (New York, 2006): 107, FIG.2 (COLOUR)
    Knittlmayer, B., Die Attische Demokratie und ihre Helden, Darstellungen des trojanischen Sagenkreises im 6. und frühen 5. Jh.v.Chr. (Heidelberg, 1997): PL.7.1
    Metropolitan Museum Journal: 41 (2006) 47, FIG.21 (PART)
    Moorman, E.M., and Stissi, V.V. (eds.), Shapes and Images, Studies on Attic Black Figure and related topics in honour of Herman A.G. Brijder (Leuven, 2009): 51-9, FIGS.1-9 (COLOUR, DRAWING, PARTS)
    Pala, E., Acropoli di Atene, Un microcosmo della produzione e distribuzione della ceramica attica (Rome, 2012): BACK COVER, 195, FIG.96 (COLOUR OF A)
    Pirenne-Delforge, V. and Prescendi, F. (eds.), 'Nourrir les dieux?', Sacrifice et representation du divin, Actes de la VIe recontre du Groupe de recherche europeen 'Figura, Representation du divin dans les societes grecque et romaine' (Universite de Liege, 23-24 octobre 2009) (Liege, 2011): 63, FIG.2 (A)
    Plantzos, D., Greek Art and Archaeology, c. 1100-30 BC (Athens, 2016): 92, FIG.135 (COLOUR)
    Schertz, P. and Stribling, N. (eds.), The Horse in Ancient Greek Art, National Sporting Library & Museum Middleburg, Virginia (Middleburg and Richmond, 2017): 31, FIG.25 (DRAWING)
    Seaman, K. and Schultz, P. (eds.), Artists and Artistic Production in Ancient Greece (Cambridge, New York, and Melbourne, 2017): 196, FIG.11.5
    Sparkes, B.A., The Red and the Black (London, 1996): 156, FIG.VI.3 (A)
    Tiverios, M.A., Elliniki techni, archaia angaia (Athens, 1996): 69, FIG.25 (COLOUR OF A)
    Valavanis, P., Games and sanctuaries in ancient Greece, Olympia, Delphi, Isthmia, Nemea, Athens (Los Angeles, 2004): 43, FIG.39 (COLOUR)
    Yatromanolakis, D. (ed.), Epigraphy of Art, Ancient Greek Vase-Inscriptions and Vase-Paintings (Oxford, 2016): 31, FIG.18 (COLOUR)
  • AVI Web: https://www.avi.unibas.ch/DB/searchform.html?ID=1091
  • AVI Record Number: 976
  • LIMC ID: 15516
  • LIMC Web: http://ark.dasch.swiss/ark:/72163/080e-747f8a0852135-d
  • CAVI Collection: Athens, N.M. Acr. i, 611.
  • CAVI Lemma: Fragmentary BF kantharos. From Athens. Nearchos. Nearchos, potter. Second quarter sixth. 560-550.
  • CAVI Subject: A: harnessing of Achilles' chariot; woman holding his armor. B: divinities.
  • CAVI Inscriptions: A: Χο[-. Αχιλ[λ]ε[υς]. Nεαρχος με|γραφσεν κα̣[ι εποιεσεν]. Χαιτος. Ευθο̣ιας. Π[-. Ι̣[-. -]ς. B: hεφα[ι]στος, but the preliminary sketch shows ΑΙΣΤΟΣ. Χα[-.
  • CAVI Comments: = Athens, N.M. 15,155. For various restorations see Graef�Langlotz. ABV gives the signature as ... κα[ποιεσεν]. The preliminary sketch is well preserved for Nεαρχοςμε-. The second part may have been dedicatory. - Chaitos and Euthoias are horse's names. E. Simon (1981: 80) suggests the horse names Charitos [sic] and Euthoias are borrowed by the painter from names of famous race horses; the chariot race became a staple of the Panathenaea at this time. The two horse names are not Homeric, but the painter shows knowledge of Homer by including the third horse (which in Homer was mortal), Pedasos. [I wonder whether Π[-] is to be read Π[εδασος]?].
  • CAVI Number: 0976
  • AVI Bibliography: Photo (parts). � Graef�Langlotz (1925�33), i, pl. 36. � ABV (1956), 82/1. � Jeffery (1961), 77/24, pl. 3 (some facss.). � Para. (1971), 30. � Philippaki (1974), 62, fig. 25 (the number given is 15,166 and not 15,155 as Add.[2]; exc. colored picture). � Simon�Hirmer (1981), pl. 64. � Bothmer (1985), 39, fig. 22 (signature). � Malagardis (1988), 396, fig. 4. � Add.[2] (1989), 23 (much bibl.). � Shapiro (1989), 110 aand n. 89. � AttScr (1990), no. 94.
  • 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/638356144
  • Coordinates: 37.971422,23.726167
  • Pleiades Coordinates: 37.971421,23.726166
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