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Veiling, Αίδώς, and a Red-Figure Amphora by Phintias Author(S): Douglas L View metadata, citation and similar papers at core.ac.uk brought to you by CORE provided by Edinburgh Research Explorer Edinburgh Research Explorer Veiling, , and a Red-Figure Amphora by Phintias Citation for published version: Cairns, D 1996, 'Veiling, , and a Red-Figure Amphora by Phintias' Journal of Hellenic Studies, vol. 116, pp. 152-7. Link: Link to publication record in Edinburgh Research Explorer Document Version: Publisher's PDF, also known as Version of record Published In: Journal of Hellenic Studies Publisher Rights Statement: © Cairns, D. (1996). Veiling, , and a Red-Figure Amphora by Phintias. 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The Society for the Promotion of Hellenic Studies is collaborating with JSTOR to digitize, preserve and extend access to The Journal of Hellenic Studies. http://www.jstor.org This content downloaded from 129.215.19.197 on Mon, 16 Dec 2013 09:19:39 AM All use subject to JSTOR Terms and Conditions NOTES Veiling, atd6);, and a red-figure The note does its after a in amphora by Phintias* job, fashion; but, common with the works it cites (and most9 other discussions of the scene) it overlooks the most obviously relevant detail At p. 319 n. 203 of my recent book,' I discuss in the image-that Leto is depicted as veiling (i.e. the appearance of the letters AIAOX ... designating the drawing her himation over) her head. This is a feature figure of Artemis on an Attic red-figure amphora which this representation of the actual moment of the (depicting the rape of Leto by Tityos) by Phintias rape shares with several versions of its aftermath:'0 as (Louvre G42; ARV2 23,1 [Paralipomena 323, Addenda2 Greifenhagen has shown," the single female figure to 154; see now also LIMC ii pl. 275, Apollon 1069, vi, whom Tityos clings, with whom he flees, or away from Leto 34; PLATEI] ...). That this constitutes an associ- whom he falls when attacked by Apollo and/or Artemis ation between the goddess and aidos is the position of must be Leto rather than Ge;'2 the once prevalent Kretschmer [Die griechischen Vaseninschriften (Gtiters- identification of the goddess with Ge rests on an illegit- loh 1894) 197],2 Norwood [Essays on Euripidean imate comparison with Antaeus' alleged need to main- drama (Berkeley 1954) 76 n. 2], and Schefold [Gotter- tain contact with his mother,13 on a naive belief that a und Heldensagen der Griechen in der spdtarchaischen Kunst (Munich 1978) 68].3 Certainly analogous titles/epithets exist-the cult of Artemis Eukleia is 8 The complete list of inscriptions is: (A) XAIPE KAIPE discussed ... by Braund [JHS c (1980) 184-5],4 and (both horizontal, to left of Apollo) AIOAAON (vertical, to Schefold [(n. 3) 330 n. 152]5 points to a possible right of Ap.) AETOYZ (vert., to right of L.) XAIPE (horiz., description of Artemis as Arete on a black-figure neck above Art.'s raised right hand) AIAOS (vert., to right of Art.) SOZTPATOZ above the two central amphora by the Antimenes Painter (Basel iii, 3; the (B) (horiz., figures) KAAOX(horiz., at of scene) XOTINOS(vert., to figure so designated, however, is not certainly top right right of on far XAPEZ to of discus-thrower) Artemis).6 But the view of von Erffa [AIAZX und figure left) (vert., right XAIPE (vert., between acontist's legs) AEMOZTPATE(vert., verwandte Begriffe, Philologus Suppl. xxx. 2 (Leipzig to right of acontist) ZOIAZ (vert., to right of spectator on and F. Eckstein (in LIMC that the 1937) 58] i.1, 352-3) far right); see Immerwahr(n. 7) 66-7. Sotinos and Sosias are of the Artemidos is letters are an abbreviation genitive the two older spectators; (caX6;goes with Sostratosand Demo- not to be dismissed, notwithstanding Kretschmer's stratos is the recipient of the greeting;but it is unclear whether assurance [Vaseninschriften 197]7 that AIAOE not the discus-throweris Sostratosor Chares,the acontist Charesor [APTE]MIAOX is the correct reading (note that the Demostratos; and neither XaZtp nor K(xact6inscriptions need vase also names Leto in the gen.).8 An association of refer to individualsdepicted on the vase. On A, the three axipe Artemis and aid6s makes sense, and a cult would not inscriptionsare most probablyextra-iconic; given theirposition, it is that and the other are to be be but we should be wary of assuming unlikely they inscriptions impossible, construedas one sentence son of Leto, either from such doubtful evidence. complete ('Hail Apollo, hail Aidos!'). 9 * For assistance in the of this note, I am But not all: see Roscher, ML v 1043 (O. Waser). preparation 10 indebtedto: W.G. Arnott;H. Bemsdorff; D.H. Berry;F. Cairns; Certainly London E 278 (ARV2226, 2; LIMC vi pl. 133, = = C.J. Classen; G. Davies; R. Hannah;Alexander von Humboldt Leto 36 Apollon 1070 Ge 43); Munich 2689 (ARV2879, 2; ii 1071 = Ge 45 = Leto Louvre Stiftung; Seminar fir klassische Philologie and Institut fiir LIMC pl. 275, Apollon 45); rf Archaologie (Gottingen);Department of Greek, Etruscan and G375 (ARV21032, 54; Leto designated MWXo)oa);a krater J. Roman Antiquities,Mus6e du Louvre; A.H. Sommerstein;and from the Loeb Collection (Munich, Loeb 472; Sieveking, two referees,one anonymousand one (C. Sourvinou-Inwood)not. Bronzen,Terrakotten, Vasen der SammlungLoeb [Munich 1930] 61 and pl. 48, LIMC vi pl. 133, Leto 38 = Artemis 1368); Aidos (Oxford 1993). perhaps also Berlin 1835 (ABV 286, 10: A. Furtwangler, 2 Cf. E. Gerhard,Auserlesene Vasenbilder(Berlin 1840-58) Beschreibungder Vasensammlungim Antiquarium[Berlin 1885] i 81; J. Overbeck,Griechische Kunstmythologie (Leipzig 1871- 331-2); and possibly those canvassedin nn. 15-16 below). On an 89) iii 387. Argive-Corinthianshield-band relief of c. 540 in Basle (LIMCvi 3= Gods and heroes in late archaic Greek art (Eng. trans. pl. 133, Leto 40) Leto draws her veil just as on the vases. Cambridge 1992) 71 (cited hereafter from trans.). Cf A. I (n. 3) 19-27; cf. P. Zancani Montuoro and U. Zanotti- Greifenhagen,'Tityos',Jb. Berl. Mus. i (1959) 19; J. Hani in J. Bianco, Heraion alla Foce del Sele (Rome 1951-4) ii 325-9, J. Duchemin (ed.), Mythe et personnification(Paris 1980) 105. Henle, Greek myths (Bloomington 1974) 35-7. 12 4 On (Art.) Eukleia, see now LIMCii.1, 677 (L. Kahil); H.A. The interpretationwhich see Ge as practicallya fixture in Shapiro, Personifications in Greek art (Zurich 1993) 70-8. scenes of the pursuit/killingof Tityos goes back to Overbeck(n. 5 On ABV 269, 41 (LIMCii pl. 553, Artemis 1300); cf. P.E. 2) iii 383-90, and is well representedby the entries s.v. 'Tityos' Arias and M. Hirmer,A history of Greek vase painting (rev. B. in Roscher and RE (e.g. K. Scherling in RE vi A 1599: 'Wenn Shefton, London 1962) 318. eine Frau neben T. oder zwischen ihm und Apollon steht, so ist 6 Schefold (n. 3) 337 n. 353 also identifies as Arete the es seine Mutter Ge'); despite rebuttal by Greifenhagen and figure crowning Heracles on two vases described by J.D. Henle, it has some more recent adherents (e.g. G. Neumann, Beazley (AK iv [1961] 56 no. 3, 57 no. 6). Gesten und Gebardenin der griechischen Kunst [Berlin 1965] 7 F. Hauser,in A. Furtwanglerand K. Reichold, Griechische 178 n. 127, 189 n. 280). See most recently M. Moore in LIMC Vasenmalerei(Munich 1904-32) ii 273 n. 1, rejects the 'abbrev- iv.1, 175-6, L. Kahil, ibid. vi.l, 260. iation' view, but interpretsthe letters as a slip for 'AprgiL8o;; 13Greifenhagen (n. 3) 22, against (e.g.) Waser in Roscher, cf. H.R. Immerwahr, Attic script (Oxford 1990) 67. The ML v 1047, Scherling in RE vi A 1602; the motif of Antaeus' hypothesis of M. Vickers and D. Gill, Artful Crafts (Oxford need to maintaincontact with Earthappears to be post-classical: 1994)-that Attic painted pottery (including its inscriptions) see Gerhard(n. 2) ii 104; G. Oertel in Roscher, ML i 362; A. imitates gold- and silverware-might explain how a slip was Furtwanglerin Roscher, ML i 2208; E.N. Gardiner,JHS xxv made (see esp. 164) but cannot prove that a slip was made.
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