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Amasea

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J. D. Beazley
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In my Attic Black-figure: a Sketch I gave a short account of the Amasis painter, and a list of his works. Since then, I have published a vase by him, and fragments of six or seven others; and Dr. Kraiker has prefixed an important study of him to his Epiktetos. One or two of the following vases are mentioned in my A.B.S. list: but most of them are new.

My thanks are due to Senator Marchese Giorgio Guglielmi di Vulci and to Captain E. G. Spencer-Churchill for their kind permission to publish vases in their collections; to Captain J. E. Acland, Dr. L. D. Caskey, Prof. A. von Salis, Dr. A. Maiuri, Dr. P. Marconi, Mr. H. W. Maxwell, Mr. A. Merlin, Dr. A. Minto, Dr. B. Nogara, and Mr. E. Stefani for their kind permission to publish vases in Dorchester, Boston, Heidelberg, Naples, Palermo, Bristol, the Louvre, Florence, the Vatican, and the Villa Giulia; to Mrs. Ure for sending me photographs of the Dorchester fragments and allowing me to publish them; to Prof. C. Albizzati for generously waiving his claim to publish the Vatican fragments; to Mr. G. R. Stanton for help at Bristol; to my wife for all the photographs reproduced except fifteen.

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The Journal of Hellenic Studies , Volume 51 , Issue 2 , November 1931, pp. 256 - 285
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Copyright © The Society for the Promotion of Hellenic Studies 1931

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References

1 A.B.S., pp. 17, 21–2, and 31–6.

2 B.S.R., 11, pp. 3–4 and Pl. 2, 1–3 (vase in Castle Ashby); J.H.S., 49, Pl. 16, 14, Pl. 15, 29, Pl. 15, 26, and pp. 264 and 269 (fragments of three vases in London); C.V. Oxford, III, He, Pl. 3, figs. 14, 16, 17 and 28, and text, pp. 96–7 (fragments of three or four in Oxford).

3 Jahrbuch, 44, pp. 141–50. See also Schweitzer, Ibid., pp. 112–15.

4 F.-R. Pl. 154, 1 and iii, p. 224. Note, by the way, that there is a good deal of restoration in this vase: for instance, the left-hand figure on the Dionysos side is modern from the waist down, the right hand included, and the legs of his neighbour are modern though not the feet.

5 Munich 1441 (Pfuhl, Fig. 225); Northwick, Spencer-Churchill collection (mentioned A.B.S. p. 38, top); Würzburg 313; B.M. B 153 (C.V. B.M. 3, Pl. 25, 2b); B.M. B 149 (Ibid., 4b); Boston 01.8053 (here Hermes escorts Dionysos).

6 Apollodorus iii, 14, 7.

7 Cf. his Munich amphora, F.-R. iii, p. 224, and see B.S.A., 29, p. 196, note 4.

8 F 25, C.V. Louvre, Pl. 16, 4.

9 Vases antiques du Louvre, p. 90; text to C.V.

10 Malerei, p. 262. See also Karo, in J.H.S., 19, p. 138Google Scholar, and cf. Furtwängler, , Ant. Gemmen, iii, p. 106Google Scholar.

10a Aelian, , Nat. An. 7, 38Google Scholar,

11 On such meetings, see von Massow, in A.M., 41, p. 72Google Scholar.

lla On the restorations see p. 256, note 4. I may add here that in the signed vase in the Cabinet des Médailles, the face of the hither maenad, and the earring of her companion, are repainted; see also J.H.S. 48, p. 256.

12 See Amelung in Pauly-Wissowa, s.v. χειριδωτὸς χιτών, and Bieber, in Jahrbuch, 32, p. 17Google Scholar. An early example, not given by Amelung, for discovered since he wrote, is the ivory statuette from Ephesus in Constantinople (Hogarth, Ephesus, Pl. XXII).

13 F.-R. Pl. iii; Pfuhl, Fig. 313.

14 A.J.A., 1907, p. 159; Hoppin, , Bf, p. 32Google Scholar. A.B.S., p. 36.

15 J.H.S., 42, p. 193. Of the second epsilon, the lower end of the hasta remains. A.B.S., p. 36.

16 Att. V., p. 4; Caskey, , Geometry of Greek Vases, pp. 185–92Google Scholar and 196–203.

17 Att. V., p. 4; F.-R., i, p. 227; Caskey, op. cit., p. 177.

18 New Aspects of the Menon Painter, p. 9 ff.

19 In the r.f. cup signed by Chachrylion and Euphronios in Munich (F.-R., Pl. 22) the sealing-wax-red stem produces something of the same effect.

20 B.f. footless cup, with merrythought handles, in Berlin, signed by Ergotimos, (W.V., 1888, Pl. 4, 2Google Scholar; Jacobsthal, Orn., Pl. 67, b). Fragments of a red-figured cup in the magazine of the Vatican. The inside picture is lost: outside, on each half, between eyes, a rider; beyond the eyes, flowers. Earliest red-figure style. A fragment in Florence, from the Campana collection, giving part of an eye and of a flower (C.V., Florence III, 1, Pl. 12, right, third from the bottom), comes either from this cup, or from one like it, for the flower is of exactly the same rare type as in the Vatican cup.

21 Pottier, Pl. 69: No. 35 in my list, A.B.S., p. 35.

22 The handle-decoration of the Paris vase, Jacobsthal, Ornamente gr. Vasen, Pl. 35, a, and C.V., Cab. Mêd., Pl. 36; of the Boston, , Jahreshefte, 10, p. 16Google Scholar and Jacobsthal, op. cit., Pl. 24, d.

23 Graef and Langlotz, Pl. 100, 2481.

24 J.H.S., 42, p. 196.

25 Panofka, Cab. Pourt., Pl. 41, below: whence Hoppin, , Rf. i, p. 338Google Scholar. Att. V., p. 25, no. 18; Kraiker, in Jahrbuch, 44, p. 163Google Scholar, No. 14.

26 I have separated the two fragments in the reproduction: owing to foreshortening in the photography, and to slight differences of scale, the fits look less impressive in the reproduction than one might have hoped.

26a Compare, for foot, and for position of the fillet, the black cup Oxford 415 (C.V. Oxford, Pl. 48, 11).

27 A few examples: olpai, Louvre F 159–161 (Pottier, Pl. 76); oinochoai shape III, N.Y. Shapes, p. 14, 2; Clara Rhodos, 4, p. 238; oinochoe, variety of shape I, C.V. Scheurleer, Pl. 4, 6.

28 London B 621 (Jacobsthal, Orn., Pl. 29); Melchet, Mond collection (Strong, Melchett Collection, Pl. 40). Louvre F 118 (Jacobsthal, Orn., Pl. 30, a), and Munich 1828 (Lau, Pl. 15, 1). Mastos, London B 681 (Jacobsthal, Orn., Pl. 32). See Jacobsthal on the vases he figures.

29 Würzburg: Sittl, Dionysisches Treiben, Pls. 2–3; J.H.S., 19, Pl. 5 and p. 136; A, Pfuhl, Fig. 222; A, Cloché, Les Classes, Pl. 11: No. 2 in my list. Berlin: Adamek, Pls. 1–2; A.B.S., Pl. 9, 1 and Pl. 10, 1; Jahrbuch, 44, p. 115; No. 1 in my list.

I find that the attribution of the Würzburg vase was made, before Karo, by Duemmler (Sittl, op. cit., p. 29), and I may add here that Furtwängler, before Adamek, had connected Nos. 8 and 11 of my list with Amasis (in Roscher, s.v. Herakles, p. 2218), and doubtless therefore my Nos. 9, 10, 12, and 27 as well.

30 Ashby, Castle, B.S.R., 11Google Scholar, Pl. 2, 3. Berlin, Adamek, p. 28. Paris, W.V., 1889, Pl. 4, 3. Oxford, C.V., III, He, Pl. 3, 16.

31 C.V. Florence III, 1, Pl. 1, 8.

32 B.S.R., 11, p. 17.

33 J.H.S., 49, p. 260. See also Greifenhagen, , Eine rf. Gattung, p. 16Google Scholar.

34 B.S.R., 11, Pl. 2, 3.

35 Phot. Armoni.

36 Rev. arch., 1891 (ii), p. 367; Cloché, , Les classes, Pl. 15, 1Google Scholar.