Eleni Hatzivassiliou (f)
Athenian Black Figure Iconography between 510 and 475 B.C.
Verlag Marie Leidorf GmbH • Rahden/Westf.
2010 TABLE OF CONTENTS
Vorwort des Herausgebers VII Acknowledgments IX
Abbreviations X
Introduction 1
PART ONE: CERAMIC PRODUCTION 4
1. Techniques and shapes 4 2. Distribution 7
PART TWO: ICONOGRAPHY 12
I. DEITIES 12
1. Dionysos 12
2. Athena 13
3. Other major Olympian deities 15
4. Eleusinian deities 17
5. Nike and Eros 18
6. Helios and Selene 18 7. Pan 19
II. HEROES 20
8. Herakles 20
9. Theseus 24
10. Perseus 25
11. Other heroes 25
III. EPIC CYCLES 26
12. Trojan Cycle 27 Kvpria 27 Iliad 29 Aithiopis Little Iliad and Ilioi/persis Odyssey Nostoi 13. Theban Cycle 14. Argonauts
IV. CULT AND LIFE 15. Warfare 16. Athletics, hunting and school 17. Symposium, games and performances 18. Agriculture, commerce and artisans . VI
19. Cult, wedding and burial 48 20. Women 52
PART THREE: PAINTERS 54
1. Gela Painter 54 2. Edinburgh Painter 58 3. Theseus Painter 62 4. Athena Painter 68 5. Sappho Painter 72 6. Diosphos Painter ^6 7. Emporion Painter 80 8. Beldam Painter 83
9. Painters and conventions: an overview 85
Conclusion 94
Tables 98 Appendix 104 Catalogue 11° Index of collections 167 List of plates and image credits 180
Plates 183 LIST OF PLATES AND IMAGE CREDITS
1.1 Skyphos, Near the Theseus Painter. Bologna, Museo Civico 16516 (11). After A. Frickenhaus, "Der Schiffskarren des Dionysos in Athen", Jdl 27 (1912) Beilage 1.3. I. 2-1.4 Lekythos, Gela Painter. Hamburg, Museum fur Kunst und Gewerbe 1899.96 (24). Photographs: Hamburg, Museum fur Kunst und Gewerbe. 2.1 Lekythos, Beldam Painter. Athens, National Museum 1129 (65). After M. Mayer, "Noch einmal Lamia", AM 16 (1891) pi. 9. 2.2-2.4 Lekythos, Sappho Painter. London, British Museum 1910.2-12.1 (69). Photographs: © The Trustees of the British Museum. 3.1 Neck-amphora, Edinburgh Painter. Vatican, Mus. Greg. Etr. Albizzati 402.1 (71). Photograph: Musei Vaticani Neg. No. XI.17.20. 3.2-3.3 Oinochoe, Gela Painter. London, British Museum 1905.7-11.1 (79). Photographs: © The Trustees of the British Museum. 3.4 Lekythos fr., Edinburgh Painter. Athens, National Museum, Acropolis 2298 (80). After Graef and Langlotz I, pi. 96. 4.1 Lekythos, Athena Painter. Athens, National Museum 1138 (82). Photograph: National Archaeological Museum, Athens. 4.2-4.3 Lekythos, Gela Painter. Compiegne, Musee Antoine Vivenel 1040 (132).
Photographs: Musee Antoine Vivenel - Compiegne, France. 4.4-4.6 Lekythos, Gela Painter. Vienna, Kunsthistorisches Museum IV 84 (134). Photographs: Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna. 5.1 Oinochoe, Athena Painter. Thebes, Archaeological Museum 17077 (R 46.83) (137). After P.N. Ure, "MuKaXnoaog", AEphem 1912, pi. 6.1. 5.2-5,5 Lekythos, Sappho Painter. New York, Metropolitan Museum 41.162.29 (152). Photographs: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Rogers Fund, 1941. Image © The Metropolitan Museum of Art. 6.1 Lekythos, Gela Painter. Boston, Museum of Fine Arts 93.99 (157). Photograph: © 2009 Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. 6.2 Skyphos, Near the Theseus Painter. Bremen, Zimmermann collection (209). Photograph: Bremen, Zimmermann collection. 6.3- 6.5 Skyphos, Theseus Painter. Taranto, Museo Nazionale 4448 (238).
Su concessione del Ministero - Photographs: per i Beni e le Attivita Culturali Soprintendenza per i Beni Archeologici della Puglia. 7.1 Lekythos, Gela Painter. Vienna, Kunsthistorisches Museum IV 198 (259). Photograph: Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna. 7.2 - 7.3 Lekythos, Edinburgh Painter. Berlin, Antikensammlung F 1998 (285). Photographs: bpk / Antikensammlung, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin. 7.4 Skyphos, Theseus Painter. London, British Museum 1902.12-18.3 (292). Photograph: © The Trustees of the British Museum. 8.1 Lekythos, Near the Athena Painter. Lost, once Agrigento, Granet collection (294). After O. Benndorf, Griechische undsizilische Vasenhilder (Berlin, 1883) pi. 42.4. 8.2 Skyphos, Theseus Painter. Athens, Agora P 1545 (316). Photograph: American School of Classical Studies at Athens: Agora Excavations. 8.3 Skyphos, Theseus Painter. Toledo (Ohio), Museum of Art 63.27 (336). Photograph: Toni Gonzalez, Toledo Museum of Art. 9.1-9.3 Lekythos.Theseus Painter. Athens. National Museum 515 (337). Photographs: National Archaeological Museum, Athens. 9.4 Skyphos fr.,Theseus Painter. Athens, National Museum, Acropolis 1280 (338). Alter Graef and Langlotz I, pi. 73 A. 9.5- 9.8 Lekythos, Sappho Painter. Athens, National Museum 595 (359). Photographs: National Archaeological Museum, Athens. 10.1-10.4 Lekythos, Sappho Painter. Gottingen, University J 22 (360). Photographs: Gottingen, Georg-August-Universitat. 10.5 Lekythos, Edinburgh Painter. Boston, Museum of Fine Arts 95.15 (369). Photograph: ••(• 2009 Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. II. 1-11.2 Lekythos, Diosphos Painter. Athens, Kerameikos 1488 (378). Photographs: DAI Athens, Neg. D-DAI-ATH-Kerameikos 6702-6703. List of plates and image credits 1
11.3 Alabastron, Diosphos Painter. Naples, Museo Nazionale 86383 (389). After MonAnt 22 (1913), pi. 61.2. 11.4 Lekythos, Edinburgh Painter. Syracuse 18418 (398). After O. Benndorf, Griechische undsizilische Vasenbilder (Berlin, 1883) pi. 41.1. 12.1-12.3 Lekythos, Sappho Painter. Athens, National Museum 552 (409). Photographs: National Archaeological Museum, Athens. 12.4 Hydria, Leagros Group. Munich, Staatliche Antikensammlungen 1700 (412). Photograph: Staatliche Antikensammlungen und Glyptothek Miinchen. 13.1-13.2 Lekythos, Athena Painter. Berlin, Antikensammlung V. 1. 3253 (417). After ABL pi. 46.1 a-b. 13.3-13.6 Lekythos, Diosphos Painter. Paris, Louvre CA 601 (449). Photographs: bpk / RMN / Musee du Louvre. 14.1-14.2 Lekythos, Edinburgh Painter. Edinburgh, National Museum of Scotland L 224.379 (452). Photographs: © The Trustees of the National Museum of Scotland. 14.3 Lekythos, Emporion Painter. Gela, Museo Regionale 40229 (476). After O. Benndorf, Griechische und sizilische Vasenbilder (Berlin, 1883) pi. 42.2. 14.4 Lekythos, Haimon Painter. Lost, once Castellani collection (504). After H. Heydemann, "Osservazioni sulla morte di Priamo e di Astianatte", RM3 (1888) 105. 15.1 Oinochoe, Theseus Painter. Paris, Louvre F 342 (512). Photograph: bpk / RMN / Musee du Louvre. 15.2 Lekythos, Theseus Painter. Oxford, Ashmolean Museum 1934.372 (516). Photograph: Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford. 15.3- 15.4 Lekythos, Athena Painter. Bloomington, Indiana University Art Museum 65.66 (530). Photographs: © 2009, Indiana University Art Museum, Bloomington, Indiana, 65.66. Photographs Michael Cavanagh and Kevin Montague. 16.1-16.3 Lekythos, Athena Painter. Bari, Museo Provinciale 2732 (534). Photographs: Bari, Museo Archeologico Provinciale. 16.4- 16.6 Lekythos, Beldam Painter. Athens, National Museum 19765 (545). Photographs: National Archaeological Museum, Athens. 16.7 Lekythos, Sappho Painter. Naples, Museo Nazionale 111609 (558). After J.E. Harrison, "Delphika", JHS 19 (1899) 228 fig. 9. 17.1-17.2 Lekythos, Emporion Painter. Princeton, Art Museum 57 (573). Photographs: © 2009 Princeton University Art Museum. 17.3 Oinochoe, Athena Painter. Paris, Cabinet des Medailles 268 (585). After A. de Ridder, Catalogue des vasespe'mts de la Bibliotheque Rationale I (Paris, 1901) 178 fig. 25. 17.4 Lekythos, Beldam Painter. New Haven, Yale University Art Gallery 1955.4.103 (603). After P. Hartwig, Die griechischen Meisterschalen (Stuttgart, 1893) 110 fig. 16. 18.1 Skyphos, Circle of the Theseus Painter. St. Petersburg, Hermitage B 1912 (647). Photograph: The State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg. 18.2 Lekythos, Edinburgh Painter. Laon, Musee Municipal 37.892 (651). Photograph: Laon, Musee Archeologique Municipal. 18.3 Chous. Munich, Staatliche Antikensammlungen 1827 (6092) (684). Photograph: Staatliche Antikensammlungen und Glyptothek Miinchen. 19.1 Lekythos, Edinburgh Painter. Lost, once London, Guilford collection (696). 12. After O.M. von Stackelberg, Die Grciber der Hellenen (Berlin, 1837) pi. 19.2 19.3 Lekythos, related to the Athena Painter. Bonn, Akademisches Kunsnnuseum 340 (697). Photographs: Bonn, Akademisches Kunstmuseum der Universitat. 19.4-19.5 Skyphos, Theseus Painter. Athens, National Museum 498 (703). Photographs: National Archaeological Museum, Athens. 20.1 Lekythos, Gela Painter. Boston, Museum of Fine Arts 99.526 (736). Photograph: ;C> 2009 Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. 20.2 Lekythos, Theseus Painter. Paris, Louvre CA 1837 (755). Photograph: bpk / RMN / Musee du Louvre. 20.3 Lekythos, Cock Group. Munich, Staatliche Antikensammlungen 1871 (775). Photograph: Staatliche Antikensammlungen und Glyptothek Miinchen. 20.4 Skyphos, Theseus Painter. Naples, Museo Nazionale 81159 (776). After J.E. Harrison, "Delphika", JHS 19 (1899) 227 fig. 7. 21.1-21.2 Bail Oinochoe, Sappho Painter. Bowdoin College 1984.23 (788). Adela Wood Sm Photographs: Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Brunswick, Maine Museum Purchase, Class of 1891. Trust, in memory of Harry de Forest Smith, 21.3-21.4 Lekythos, Beldam Painter. Athens, National Museum 1982 (796). Photographs: National Archaeological Museum, Athens. F 1843 21.5 Neck-amphora, Edinburgh Painter. Berlin, Antikensammlung (806). Photograph: bpk / Antikensammlung, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin. 182 List of plates and image credits
22.1-22.3 Alabastron, Emporion Painter. St. Petersburg, Hermitage B 5219 (823). Photographs: The State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg. 22.4 Lekythos, Gela Painter. Athens, Agora P 14945 (828). Photograph: American School of Classical Studies at Athens: Agora Excavations. 22.5-22.7 Lekythos, Beldam Painter. Athens, National Museum 487 (837). Photographs: National Archaeological Museum, Athens.