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Apollodoros and a new Amazon cup in a Private Collection

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 December 2013

Dyfri J. R. Williams
Dyfri J. R. Williams
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Lincoln College, Oxford
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A small Attic red-figure cup of considerable charm was recently acquired by a private collector in Hamburg. It is decorated outside as well as inside and has been mended from several fragments. The tondo and foot are undamaged, but a few minor rim fragments are missing, the largest robbing us of part of the central horseman: gone are the back of his neck, his right shoulder, the upper part of his right arm, most of the pelta and a section of the spear shafts, as well as three letters from the inscription. The surface is in superb condition, despite one or two chips and the slight flaking under the right hand of the woman on the interior. The measurements of the cup are as follows: height 7.2 cm, diameter without handles 19.5 cm and diameter of the foot 8.0 cm. The shape is of type ‘C’, with the fillet at the lower end of the stem. The handles are long and rather flat, scarcely rising above the rim. The lip has a reserved line inside and out. The fairly flat bowl meets the rim at a sharp angle. The stem is short, as is normal with type ‘C’ cups, and is strongly flaring at top and bottom. The fillet is marked by a reserved groove above and below. The foot has a flat upper contour. The profile of the edge of the foot is richly formed: the upper third being concave and the lower two thirds convex, while in the middle of the former there is a very slight ridge. Under the foot is a wide black band, as is usual among cups of type ‘C’.

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The Journal of Hellenic Studies , Volume 97 , November 1977 , pp. 160 - 168
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Copyright © The Society for the Promotion of Hellenic Studies 1977

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1 My first debt of thanks is to the owner of the Hamburg cup for his permission to study and publish this cup and for his generous hospitality. I should also like to thank Mrs Martha Ohly, who magnanimously suggested that I should publish the cup. She also provided me with many fine photographs, for which I am deeply grateful. Professor C. M. Robertson kindly read drafts of this article, making invaluable suggestions and giving much encouragement. To him I also owe thanks for permission to study photographs from the Breazley Archive and to Dr D. C. Kurtz, its keeper, for her generous co-operation.

2 Diameter with handles 26.2 cm; diameter of tondo 10.5 cm.

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5 Bloesch 121 and 127.

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7 The woman on the interior of the difficult cup in Bonn (Inv. 73; ARV 2 48 mentioned in connexion with no. 162) holds a jug and has much in common with our dancer.

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10 London E. 45; ARV 2 316/8; Lane, A., Greek Pottery (3rd ed.London, 1971)Google Scholar pl. 73; von Bothmer pl. 69,4. For earliest Onesimos see Jahrbuch der Berliner Museen 18 p. 9 ff.

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14 Vatican, Astarita 428; ARV 2 242/77; von Bothmer 129.

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28 Dublin, New Hampshire, R. W. Smith; ARV 2 117/6; Buitron 79.

27 London E. 43; ARV 2 118/13; Boardman fig. 114. Berlin 3232; ARV 2 117/2; Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum (hereafter CVA) Berlin 2, pl. 63, 1–2, 66, 1.

28 Photographs in the Beazley Archive: unattributed by Beazley. I am very grateful to Professor Robertson for showing me the photographs of this cup.

29 Lucerne Market (Ars Antiqua); ARV 2 118/14.

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32 Adria B. 616 fr.; ARV 2 119/4; Schöne, R., Le Antichità del Museo Bocchi di Adria (Rome, 1878)Google Scholar pl. 10, 4.

33 Acropolis 703 frr. (one ex Bryn Mawr); ARV 2 118/2 and Paralip. 332; Graef, B. and Langlotz, E., Die antiken Vasen von der Akropolis zu Athen (Berlin, 1933)Google Scholar pl. 55; the Bryn Mawr fr., American Journal of Archaeology 68 (1964) pl. 128B.

34 Munich 8771; Dumm figs. 1–5; Robertson, C. M., A History of Greek Art (Cambridge, 1975)Google Scholar cover and pl. 76c; Boardman fig. 115.

35 Boston 13.190; ARV 2 119/3; ARV 1 86; Dumm, 15 fig. 6 (incompletely); with the fr. ex Leipzig, GhaliKahil, L., Les enlêvements et le retour ďHélène (Paris, 1955)Google Scholar pl. 81, 1.

36 Manchester Aa 24; ARV 2 119/2; Dumm 18 fig. 8.

37 Bonn 63; ARV 2 119/1; Dumm 17 fig. 7.

38 Maplewood, Noble frr.; Paralip. 332 add as 119/4.

39 Leningrad 664; ARV 2 117/4; Paralip. 509; Peredolskaya pl. 3, 3–4.

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41a Oxford 303; ARV 2 120/7; Boardman fig. 118.

42 Vienna 3691; ARV 2 118/8; CVA Vienna 1, pl. 2, 4–6.

43 Louvre G. 139–140; ARV 2 120/1 ; CVA Louvre 18 pl. 66, 3–4, 67, 1–2. Another Louvre fr. joins and has been added (Louvre C. 11438; ARV 2 801/13, the second fr.).

44 Adria B. 1002 fr.; ARV 2 118/10; CVA Adria 1, pl. 2, 2.

45 AV 52/8.

46 Berlin 2342; ARV 2 1014/6; EAA II 646 fig. 876.

47 Bologna 436; ARV 2 118/11; CVA Bologna 1, pl. 1, 6.

48 Basel, Tessin; Schefold pl. 38, 1.

49 Adria B. 106 fr.; ARV 2 121/17; CVA Adria 1, pl. 2, 4.

50 Paris Market (Koutoulakis); ARV 2 120/12.

51 Basel, Tessin (ex Basel Market, M. & M.); Paralip. 333 add as 120/12 bis; Schefold pl. 37, 2.

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54 Villa Giulia and Castle Ashby frr.; ARV 2 120/4; JHS 53 (1933) pl. 6. Florence 73131; ARV 2 120/5; CVA Florence 3, pl. 88. Vatican; ARV 2 121/21; JHS 53 p. 70.

55 Von Bothmer 159.

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58 Leipzig T. 521 fr.; ARV 2 121/24; Hartwig pl. 18, 3. Mississippi; ARV 2 121/25; CVA Robinson 2, pl. 4.

59 Oxford 303; ARV 2 120/7; Boardman fig. 118.

60 Tarquinia RC. 1123; ARV 2 120/8; CVA Tarquinia 1, pl. 10, 1.

61 London E. 768; ARV 2 446/262; Buschor, E., Griechische Vasen (revised by M. Dumm; Munich, 1969)Google Scholar figs. 183–4.

62 For the Magnoncourt Painter see ARV 2 456.

63 London E.48; ARV 2 431/47; Wegner, M., Duris (Münster, 1968)Google Scholar pls. 23–5.

64 Boston 00.338; ARV 2 427/4; Caskey, L. D. and Beazley, J. D., Attic Vase Paintings in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (Oxford, 1963) iiiGoogle Scholar, pl. 70 (hereafter CB).

65 Kings Point (N.Y.), Schimmel; The Norbert Schimmel Collection (2nd ed. Mainz, 1974) no. 59.

66 Berlin 3168; ARV 2 428/13; Hartwig pl. 27.

67 Cabinet des Médailles fr.; ARV 2 121/18.

68 Oxford 1911.621; ARV 2 121/bottom 2; CVA Oxford 2, pl. 51, 6.

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69 Boston 01.8018; AVR 2 317/9; CB i pl. 38 above.