Stamnos fragment

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Inventory number

GL II.773

Artist

The Kleophrades Painter (?)

Category

Vessel

Period

Archaic Period

Date

500-475 BC

Dimensions

Height: 0.081 m
Length: 0.149 m

Material

Clay

Location

First Floor Case 29, No 5

Description
Bibliography

Stamnos fragment decorated in the red-figure technique. The decoration that has survived consists of a horizontal band with a tongue motif and the head of Athena.

The goddess wears an Attic-type helmet with a tall crest and has earrings on her ears. She wears an aegis from which only one snake is preserved. Curly locks of hair escape her helmet and fall on her forehead and shoulders. Across from her, part of a palmette is retained, perhaps from the decoration of a throne. Next to her the letters ΑΘΕ[ΝΑΙΑ] can be seen from an inscription naming the goddess (Athe[na]).

BAPD, Beazley Archive Pottery Database, www.beazley.ox.ac.uk, αρ. κατ. 46841
AVI, Attic Vase Inscriptions / Attische Vaseninschriften - www.avi.unibas.ch, αρ. κατ. AVI 1432
Graef, B., Langlotz, E., Die antiken Vasen von der Akropolis zu Athen, 2, Berlin, 1933, σελ. 73, εικ. 67, αρ. κατ. 773
Ashmed, A., «Fragments of the Kleophrades Painter from the Athenian Agora», Hesperia 35, 1966, σελ. 35-36, εικ. 12
Wagner, C., Dedication Practices on the Athenian Acropolis, 8th to 4th centuries B.C, University of Oxford, 1997, σελ. 64 υποσημ. 290, εικ. 67
Santi, F., «Eracle, eroe delle Panatenee», Archeologia Classica 58, 2007, σελ. 34 υποσημ. 10
Pala, E., Acropoli di Atene, Un microcosmo della produzione e distribuzione della ceramica attica, Rome, 2012, σελ. 382-383, αρ. κατ. II.773