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Plates 549–57
Accession Numbers 77.AE.11, 86.AE.587, 97.AE.58.2, and 98.AE.82.1–12
Provenance
77.AE.11: By 1971, Nicolas Koutoulakis (Geneva, Switzerland); –1977, Gordon McLendon (Dallas, Texas); 1977, donated to the J. Paul Getty Museum. On the reassembly of the krater, and the inclusion of fragments from the Musée du Louvre, see below.
The following fragments have not yet been incorporated into the reconstructed vase:
- 86.AE.587: 1984–86, Herbert Cahn (Basel, Switzerland); 1986, acquired by the J. Paul Getty Museum by exchange; a note states: “H.A. Cahn, ex Thimme”; a number, 1673, in red, was removed prior to photography for the present publication; other Museum documentation gives the provenance as “Swiss Market (ex Koutoulakis).”
- 97.AE.58.2: By 1995–97, Robert Hecht (New York); 1997, donated to the J. Paul Getty Museum.
- 98.AE.82.1–12: 1998, accessioned by the J. Paul Getty Museum during an inventory of the storeroom. These fragments have not as yet been identified with any dealer, donor, or collector.
The reconstructed vase includes a number of fragments on loan from the Musée du Louvre. They were once part of a volute-krater (Louvre G166) that was acquired from the Campana Collection in 1861. By 1922, Beazley had ascertained that a nineteenth-century restorer had created this vase from fragments of two different volute-kraters—one by the Kleophrades Painter (Abbreviation: ARV2J. D. Beazley. Attic Red-Figure Vase-Painters. 2nd ed. Oxford, 1963 186.51), the other by the Berlin Painter (Louvre CA 10799; Abbreviation: ARV2J. D. Beazley. Attic Red-Figure Vase-Painters. 2nd ed. Oxford, 1963 206.129–30). The vase was disassembled in 1957. Part of the foot was subsequently identified as belonging to the Antaios krater by Euphronios (Louvre G103; Abbreviation: ARV2J. D. Beazley. Attic Red-Figure Vase-Painters. 2nd ed. Oxford, 1963 14.2; see A. Pasquier, “Nouvelles découvertes à propos du cratère d’Antée peint par Euphronios,” Revue du Louvre 1 [1981]: 3–9).
The Louvre fragments (L.80.AE.80 and L.82.AE.33) were lent to the Getty in 1980 and 1982 and incorporated into the reconstructed krater. They include the lower part of the fallen Amazon and pair of Amazons defending her, from the upper frieze of side A; part of Athena’s shield and Herakles’s head, from the lower frieze of side A; a large fragment belonging to side B, showing running Amazons, most of the trumpeter, and the two Nereids running toward Nereus; the head of the standing female figure at the far left of the Peleus-Thetis frieze; and the two handle fragments published in H. Giroux, “La cratère à volutes du peintre de Berlin au Louvre,” RA 23 (1972): 243–50.
J. Gaunt has noted a fragment in the Museo Archeologico Etrusco in Florence (PD 507; Abbreviation: ARV2J. D. Beazley. Attic Red-Figure Vase-Painters. 2nd ed. Oxford, 1963 187.52) that is likely to belong to this krater.
Shape and Ornament
77.AE.11: Offset rim flares out slightly; upright cylindrical loop on each side of the shoulder supports the flanged handle that rises above the rim and terminates in a tight spiral after it attaches to the top side of the rim. Neck in two degrees, with the upper part offset from the lower; ovoid body; foot in two degrees, joined to the body by a fillet marked by a groove above and below. Top of rim reserved. Outer edge of rim on side A decorated with black squares, each outlined twice by rectangles, alternating high and low between continuous right and left meanders. On side B, saltire squares and two black outlined squares alternate high and low between right and left meanders. Row of short black tongues on body below junction with neck. On the reserved flanges of the handles, double lines frame running spirals with ivy leaves in the interstices. Between the flanges, the handles are black. Vertically addorsed palmettes at the roots of the handles. Body black, except for a reserved zone with black rays above the foot. Foot black, except for outside of upper degree, resting surface, and underside. Interior black.
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86.AE.587: Two joining fragments from the lower zone of the neck on A. Black tongue pattern on shoulder below the junction with the body.
97.AE.58.2: Single fragment from the left side of the upper zone of the neck on side A.
98.AE.82.1–12: A group of twelve small fragments belonging to the neck of the vessel. Some joins, identified by An Jiang, are recorded below.
Subject
A. Upper zone: Amazonomachy (partially preserved). At left, an Amazon carrying a wounded or dead companion to left out of the battle. Behind them is preserved the edge of a helmet’s crest. Most of the rest of the left half of the scene is missing. Here should be placed the upper torsos of the two Amazons moving to left preserved on fragment 97.AE.58.2; they are mounted, as is indicated by the edge of the horse head preserved at the left end of the fragment and the thigh of the Amazon at the right. The latter is a hoplite, with a helmet on her head and a round shield and spear in her hands; the Amazon at the left is dressed in a Skythian costume and cap. The scene continues on 77.AE.11 with Telamonian Ajax (unnamed) in combat with Amazons occupying the center of the frieze. Ajax strides to left, dressed in a chitoniskos and armed with a round shield (bull as device), greaves, a corselet, and a Corinthian helmet with a low crest decorated with a double row of dots at the lower part. With his single-edged sword (machaira) he attacks a group of Amazons (two preserved) who confront him with spears. Next to Ajax stands Herakles in lionskin and chitoniskos, facing right. He grasps a fallen Amazon to deliver the final blow with his sword. A gorytos hangs at his side. The fallen Amazon wears a high-crested Attic helmet without decoration, holds a bow in her right hand, and grasps Herakles’s arm with her left. At the right, three pairs of fully armed Amazons move to the left to attack Herakles. The two Amazons at the far right are archers (98.AE.82.1 gives more of their legs and feet and the end of a quiver), the rest hoplites. One archer wears a Skythian cap; the rest of the Amazons wear greaves and helmets with crests decorated at their lower part with a double row of dots; the fallen Amazon and the first two attackers wear low-crested Attic helmets; the second pair and the first archer wear low-crested Chalcidian helmets. A centaur serves as the device on one Amazon’s round shield. The Amazon behind her holds a partially preserved Boiotian shield.
Inscriptions: KAΛO[Σ] to the right of the head of the Amazon carrying a companion. KAΛOΣ [3-bar final sigma] Λ[ between the heads of the standing Amazons attacking Ajax and Herakles.
Lower zone: The Labors of Herakles. The fragment 86.AE.587 should be placed on the left end of the figural frieze. It preserves the lower part of a female’s garment with the left foot standing to right, and the right foot of a figure to right. The female figure is probably Athena, standing behind her protegé Herakles, whose right foot can be recognized on the 86.AE.587 fragment and whose left foot is preserved on 77.AE.11. This is all that survives of the hero as he fights the Lernean Hydra, which is presented as a huge monster with nine snake heads; only four of the actual heads are fully or partially preserved, while the rest of the fragment preserves only a part the snake’s body. Iolaos (partially preserved; 98.AE.82.4 gives his head) stands on the right facing the creature and prepares to cauterize the stumps of the severed necks with the torch he holds in his right hand. He wears a helmet and greaves and holds a spear and shield (device: Pegasos) in his left hand. Behind him, Herakles in a lionskin fights the triple-bodied Geryon (only the upper part of his shield, the lower leg with greaves, and three left feet are preserved) with his club (only lower end preserved) in his right hand. The double-bodied dog Orthros lies dead on the ground by Herakles’s and Iolaos’s feet. Blood pours from Orthros’s wound. Eurytion, the cowherd of Geryon, lies on the ground between the hero and Geryon, having been shot in the abdomen by an arrow. Blood pours from his wound. Following another lost section of the frieze is Athena (only her low-crested helmet, her left hand holding a shield, her legs from the knee down with the lower edges of her garment, and the end of a spear are preserved), who serves as a transitional element between this and the next labor. The goddess sits facing right, but looks back toward Geryon. In front of Athena to the right, Herakles (lionskin, gorytos) holds his club in his left hand while with his right he picks the golden apples of the Hesperides from the tree. The dragon Ladon (not fully preserved), represented as a three-headed snake coiled around the trunk, defends the tree. To the far right, as a figure to frame the figural scene, Atlas (partially preserved) stands frontally with right hand on his hip, probably holding the heavens on his shoulders.
B. Upper zone: Amazons preparing for battle. All the Amazons wear chitoniskoi, greaves, and corselets, and all except for two on the left wear helmets, which are of either Attic or Chalcidian type. At left, five Amazons form two groups who test their weapons and begin to arm. The first Amazon testing her arrow serves as the framing device at the left end of the scene; she has a low-crested Chalcidian helmet on her head. Next to her, a companion facing left holds a Corinthian helmet, spear, and round shield (device: lion), and has her hair bound up in a krobylos, with a fillet around her head. The third Amazon also has her hair in a krobylos, with a fillet around it; she tests her spear, while her round shield and Corinthian helmet lie on the ground. Standing frontally while looking to her right, she is the transitional figure between the two pairs. The other two Amazons are arming. The fourth Amazon, with a Chalcidian helmet on her head, faces right (98.AE.82.3 provides a segment of her thighs and drapery), holding her round shield up before her (only the lower half depicted; device: legs of a running figure = triskeles), while the last, facing left, puts on her right greave and has an Attic helmet on her head (98.AE.82.6 preserves part of the helmet crest and a saltire square from the rim). In the center, three Amazons fully armed with two spears, shields, and helmets on their heads (the two on the right have Chalcidian helmets, while the third, at the rear, has an Attic helmet) calmly lead their horses to right; the lead one has a pelta (98.AE.82.2 provides a small part of the last horse’s tail). Another group of three fully armed Amazons move quickly to the right of the scene. Two of them are on foot and one leads a horse, all running toward a trumpeter. The Amazon leading the horse wears an Attic helmet, while the other two have Chalcidian helmets on their heads. The second Amazon carries a battle-axe in her right hand. The Amazon behind her holds a spear with her right hand and a round shield with her left. The trumpeter blows a salpinx, in the shape of a long, narrow cylindrical tube terminating in a bell (kodon). She is a hoplite with greaves, has a Chalcidian helmet on her head and a round shield on her left arm, and holds a spear in her left hand while facing left as the framing device at the right end of the scene.
Lower zone: Peleus seizing Thetis. At far left a woman, probably Doris, dressed in a chiton and himation, with her hair in a krobylos and a fillet, stands facing right and extending her right arm. Two Nereids dressed in chitons and himatia flee left to her with both feet off the ground while looking back at the abduction. The first Nereid has her golden hair down; the other wears hers in a krobylos and with a fillet. The second Nereid holds a small branch in her left hand. Cheiron, Peleus, and Thetis (partially preserved) are placed in the center of the composition. The centaur looks on from the left side, dressed in a himation and with a fillet around his head. He has human forelegs and carries a branch over his shoulder. Before him, Peleus wrestles with Thetis. The beardless hero’s hair is in a krobylos and fillet. A snake, one of Thetis’s metamorphoses, is coiled around his left leg. Thetis is in the grasp of Peleus. Part of her chiton is preserved with the lower part of her face looking left. Two Nereids dressed in chitons and himatia flee to Nereus on the right. The first (upper part of her head not preserved) runs with her feet off the ground as she looks back toward Thetis. She holds a fish in her left hand and pulls up her garment with the right so that she can run faster. The second Nereid also runs with both feet off the ground, and extends her hands toward Nereus. Her hair is in a krobylos, and she wears a red fillet around her head. Nereus, the father of Thetis, is seated to left on a thakos (seat). Depicted as an old man with rounded shoulders, he is dressed in a chiton and himation, with a fillet around his head, and supports himself with a knobby staff in his right hand.
Attribution and Date
Attributed to the Kleophrades Painter by J. D. Beazley. Circa 490–480 B.C.
Dimensions and Condition
77.AE.11: Height to top of volutes 74.5 cm; height to top of rim 66 cm; diam. of rim 45.7 cm (inside); diam. of rim 52.4 cm (outside); diam. of body 50 cm; diam. of foot (as restored) 26 cm; height of figural scenes: upper 7 cm, lower 7.8 cm. Capacity to rim is 71.425 liters. Mended from fragments, with missing pieces restored in plaster and painted. Modern: most of the foot, upper section of one handle, part of the neck on A, and parts of the body. All fragments listed below: surfaces scratched, with chips missing around the edges.
86.AE.587: Maximum preserved dimensions: height 6.1 cm; width 3.7 cm; thickness 1.2 cm.
97.AE.58.2: Maximum preserved dimensions: height 6.1 cm; width 5.2 cm; thickness 1.3 cm.
98.AE.82.1: Greatest extent 5 cm.
98.AE.82.2: Greatest extent 4 cm.
98.AE.82.3: Greatest extent 4.1 cm.
98.AE.82.4: Greatest extent 3.8 cm.
98.AE.82.5: Greatest extent 4.9 cm.
98.AE.82.6: Greatest extent 3.2 cm.
98.AE.82.7: Greatest extent 2.9 cm.
98.AE.82.8: Greatest extent 3.1 cm.
98.AE.82.9: Greatest extent 3.2 cm.
98.AE.82.10: Greatest extent 2.6 cm.
98.AE.82.11: Greatest extent 2.6 cm.
98.AE.82.12: Greatest extent 2.4 cm.
Technical Features
77.AE.11: Preliminary sketch. Relief contour. Accessory color. Red: external outline of volutes, circumference of rim, inscriptions, fillets, bridles, leaves on Cheiron’s branch, straps of helmet, small branch in Nereid’s hand, flame of torch, blood, tongues of snakes, leaves on tree, straps on quivers. Dilute glaze: hair of Nereus, hair of two Nereids.
86.AE.587: Preliminary sketch. Relief contour.
97.AE.58.2: Preliminary sketch. Relief contour.
98.AE.82.1–12: Preliminary sketch. Relief contour.
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Loan
Los Angeles, Loyola Marymount University, Painting on Vases in Ancient Greece, March 20–April 22, 1979.
Comparanda
For the Kleophrades Painter, see Abbreviation: ARV2J. D. Beazley. Attic Red-Figure Vase-Painters. 2nd ed. Oxford, 1963 181–95, 1631–33, 1705; Abbreviation: ABVJ. D. Beazley. Attic Black-Figure Vase-Painters. Oxford, 1956 404–5, 696, 715; Abbreviation: ParalipomenaJ. D. Beazley. Paralipomena: Additions to Attic Black-Figure Vase-Painters and to Attic Red-Figure Vase-Painters. Oxford, 1971 175–76, 340–41; Abbreviation: Beazley Addenda2Beazley Addenda: Additional References to ABV, ARV2 & Paralipomena. 2nd ed. Compiled by T. H. Carpenter with T. Mannack and M. Mendonça. Oxford, 1989 105, 186–89; J. Six, “Kleophrades Sohn des Amasis,” Mitteilungen des Deutschen Archäologischen Instituts, Römische Abteilung 3 (1888): 233–34; J. D. Beazley, “Kleophrades,” Abbreviation: JHSJournal of Hellenic Studies 30 (1910): 38–68; Abbreviation: Beazley, Vases in American MuseumsJ. D. Beazley. Attic Red-Figured Vases in American Museums. Cambridge, Mass., 1918, pp. 40–44; G. M. A. Richter, “The Kleophrades Painter,” Abbreviation: AJAAmerican Journal of Archaeology 40 (1936): 100–115; L. Schnitzler, “Vom Kleophrades-Maler,” Opuscula Atheniensia 2 (1955): 47–60; R. Lullies, Die Spitzamphora des Kleophrades (Bremen, 1957); P. E. Arias and M. Hirmer, A History of 1000 Years of Greek Vase Painting, trans. and rev. by B. B. Shefton (New York, 1962), pp. 328–31; A. H. Ashmead, “Fragments by the Kleophrades Painter from the Athenian Agora,” Hesperia 35 (1966): 20–36; U. Knigge, “Neue Scherben von Gefässen des Kleophrades-Malers,” Abbreviation: AMMitteilungen des Deutschen Archäologischen Instituts, Athenische Abteilung 85 (1970): 1–22; Abbreviation: Greifenhagen, Neue Fragmente des KleophradesmalersA. Greifenhagen. Neue Fragmente des Kleophradesmalers. Sitzungberichte der Heidelberger Akademie der Wissenschaften. Philosophisch-historische Klasse, Jahrgang 1972, 4. Abhandlung. Heidelberg, 1972; J. D. Beazley, The Kleophrades Painter (Mainz, 1974); F. W. Hamdorf, “Eine neue Hydria des Kleophradesmalers,” Pantheon 32 (1974): 219–24; J. Boardman, “The Kleophrades Painter’s Cup in London,” Abbreviation: GettyMusJThe J. Paul Getty Museum Journal 1 (1975): 7–14; idem, “The Kleophrades Painter at Troy,” Abbreviation: AKAntike Kunst 19 (1976): 3–18; Robertson, “An Unrecognized Cup” (supra), pp. 125–29; J. Boardman and U. Gehrig, “Epiktetos II R.I.P.,” Abbreviation: AAArchäologischer Anzeiger (1981): 329–32; B. Cohen, “Paragone: Sculpture versus Painting, Kaineus and the Kleophrades Painter,” in Ancient Greek Art and Iconography, ed. W. G. Moon (Madison, 1983), pp. 171–92; M. Robertson, “Fragments of a Dinos and a Cup Fragment by the Kleophrades Painter,” Greek Vases in the J. Paul Getty Museum, vol. 1, Occasional Papers on Antiquities 1 (Malibu, 1983): 51–54; M. Ohly-Dumm, “Sosias und Euthymides,” in Abbreviation: Ancient Greek and Related PotteryAncient Greek and Related Pottery: Proceedings of the International Vase Symposium in Amsterdam, 12–15 April 1984. Edited by H. A. G. Brijder. Amsterdam, 1984, pp. 165–72; F. Lissarrague, “Un peintre de Dionysos: Le peintre de Kleophrades,” in Dionysos: Mito e mistero, Atti del convegno internazionale, Comacchio, 3–5 novembre 1989, ed. F. Beri (Ferrara, 1991), pp. 257–76; Abbreviation: Robertson, Art of Vase-PaintingM. Robertson, The Art of Vase-Painting in Classical Athens. Cambridge, 1992, pp. 56–68; D. Williams, Abbreviation: CVACorpus Vasorum Antiquorum London 9 (Great Britain 17), no. 58; idem, “From Pelion to Troy: Two Skyphoi by the Kleophrades Painter,” in Abbreviation: Athenian Potters and PaintersAthenian Potters and Painters: The Conference Proceedings. 3 vols. Vol. 1, edited by J. H. Oakley, W. D. E. Coulson, and O. Palagia. Oxbow Monograph 67. Vol. 2, edited by J. H. Oakley and O. Palagia. Vol. 3, edited by J. H. Oakley. Oxford, 1997 (vol. 1), 2009 (vol. 2), 2014 (vol. 3), vol. 1, pp. 195–201; R. T. Neer, Abbreviation: CVACorpus Vasorum Antiquorum Malibu 7 (USA 32), no. 14; Padgett, “Kleophrades Painter” (supra); Abbreviation: Agora 30M. B. Moore. Attic Red-Figured and White-Ground Pottery. The Athenian Agora, vol. 30. Princeton, 1997, pp. 92–93 and passim; Abbreviation: Gaunt, “Attic Volute Krater,”J. Gaunt. “The Attic Volute Krater.” Ph.D. diss., Institute of Fine Arts, New York University, 2002 pp. 173–86; B. Kreuzer, “An Aristocrat in the Athenian Kerameikos: The Kleophrades Painter = Megakles,” in Abbreviation: Athenian Potters and PaintersAthenian Potters and Painters: The Conference Proceedings. 3 vols. Vol. 1, edited by J. H. Oakley, W. D. E. Coulson, and O. Palagia. Oxbow Monograph 67. Vol. 2, edited by J. H. Oakley and O. Palagia. Vol. 3, edited by J. H. Oakley. Oxford, 1997 (vol. 1), 2009 (vol. 2), 2014 (vol. 3), vol. 2, pp. 116–24; Williams, “Beyond the Berlin Painter” (supra), pp. 153–56.
For the painter’s Panathenaic amphorae and black-figure work, see Abbreviation: Kunze-Götte, Der Kleophrades-MalerE. Kunze-Götte. Der Kleophrades-Maler unter Malern schwarzfigurigen Amphoren. Mainz, 1992; S. B. Matheson, “Panathenaic Amphorae by the Kleophrades Painter,” in Abbreviation: Greek Vases in the Getty 4Greek Vases in the J. Paul Getty Museum. Vol. 4. Occasional Papers on Antiquities 5. Malibu, 1989, pp. 95–112; Abbreviation: CVACorpus Vasorum Antiquorum Leiden 1 (Netherlands 3), pp. 37–38, pls. 48–49; B. Kratzmüller, “‘Not That the Vases Are Easy to Interpret…’ Some Thoughts on Panathenaic Prize Amphorae,” in The Panathenaic Games: Proceedings of an International Conference Held at the University of Athens, May 11–12, 2004, ed. O. Palagia and A. Spetsieri-Choremi (Oxford, 2015), pp. 103–106.
For decorative ornaments used by the Kleophrades Painter, see B. Otto, “Dekorative Elemente in den Bildschöpfungen des Kleophrades- und Berliner-Malers,” in Abbreviation: Ancient Greek and Related PotteryAncient Greek and Related Pottery: Proceedings of the International Vase Symposium in Amsterdam, 12–15 April 1984. Edited by H. A. G. Brijder. Amsterdam, 1984, pp. 198–201.
Spirals are a relatively unusual decorative motif on volutes of volute-kraters. For other examples, see Athens, Agora P 24784 and P 26550 (Abbreviation: Agora 30M. B. Moore. Attic Red-Figured and White-Ground Pottery. The Athenian Agora, vol. 30. Princeton, 1997, p. 173, nos. 242–43, pl. 33); and three vases by the Niobid Painter: Bologna, Museo Civico Archeologico 268 (Abbreviation: ARV2J. D. Beazley. Attic Red-Figure Vase-Painters. 2nd ed. Oxford, 1963 598.1; Abbreviation: ParalipomenaJ. D. Beazley. Paralipomena: Additions to Attic Black-Figure Vase-Painters and to Attic Red-Figure Vase-Painters. Oxford, 1971 394; Abbreviation: Beazley Addenda2Beazley Addenda: Additional References to ABV, ARV2 & Paralipomena. 2nd ed. Compiled by T. H. Carpenter with T. Mannack and M. Mendonça. Oxford, 1989 265; Abbreviation: Schleiffenbaum, VolutenkraterH. E. Schleiffenbaum. Der griechische Volutenkrater: Form, Funktion, und Sinngehalt eines antiken Prunkgefässes. Frankfurt, 1991, pp. 332–33, no. V 227, fig. 14), Palermo, National Museum G 1283 (Abbreviation: ARV2J. D. Beazley. Attic Red-Figure Vase-Painters. 2nd ed. Oxford, 1963 599.2; Abbreviation: ParalipomenaJ. D. Beazley. Paralipomena: Additions to Attic Black-Figure Vase-Painters and to Attic Red-Figure Vase-Painters. Oxford, 1971 394.2; Abbreviation: Beazley Addenda2Beazley Addenda: Additional References to ABV, ARV2 & Paralipomena. 2nd ed. Compiled by T. H. Carpenter with T. Mannack and M. Mendonça. Oxford, 1989 266; Abbreviation: Schleiffenbaum, VolutenkraterH. E. Schleiffenbaum. Der griechische Volutenkrater: Form, Funktion, und Sinngehalt eines antiken Prunkgefässes. Frankfurt, 1991, pp. 318–19, no. V 188, fig. 13), Naples, Museo Archeologico Nazionale 2421 (Abbreviation: ARV2J. D. Beazley. Attic Red-Figure Vase-Painters. 2nd ed. Oxford, 1963 600.13; Abbreviation: ParalipomenaJ. D. Beazley. Paralipomena: Additions to Attic Black-Figure Vase-Painters and to Attic Red-Figure Vase-Painters. Oxford, 1971 395.13; Abbreviation: Beazley Addenda2Beazley Addenda: Additional References to ABV, ARV2 & Paralipomena. 2nd ed. Compiled by T. H. Carpenter with T. Mannack and M. Mendonça. Oxford, 1989 266; Abbreviation: Schleiffenbaum, VolutenkraterH. E. Schleiffenbaum. Der griechische Volutenkrater: Form, Funktion, und Sinngehalt eines antiken Prunkgefässes. Frankfurt, 1991, p. 371, no. V 294; J. P. Barron, “New Light on Old Walls: The Murals of the Theseion,” Abbreviation: JHSJournal of Hellenic Studies 92 (1972): pl. VI.b, c), all dated around the mid-fifth century B.C. See the comment on the handle ornament of the Getty krater by Williams, in “Beyond the Berlin Painter” (supra), p. 176. The handles on Louvre G 166, which are given as examples for spirals on the flange in Abbreviation: Agora 30M. B. Moore. Attic Red-Figured and White-Ground Pottery. The Athenian Agora, vol. 30. Princeton, 1997, p. 173, no. 242, belong to our krater 77.AE.11, and they are currently incorporated into it. See Frel, “The Kleophrades Painter in Malibu” (supra), p. 75, note 7.
In overall shape and decoration, the krater resembles the black-figure volute-kraters of the late sixth century B.C., which have a black body, figural decoration on the neck, and rays at the base. Cf. the black-figure krater by the Golvol Group in Boston, Museum of Fine Arts 90.153 (Abbreviation: ABVJ. D. Beazley. Attic Black-Figure Vase-Painters. Oxford, 1956 194–95, 689; Abbreviation: ParalipomenaJ. D. Beazley. Paralipomena: Additions to Attic Black-Figure Vase-Painters and to Attic Red-Figure Vase-Painters. Oxford, 1971 79–80; Abbreviation: Beazley Addenda2Beazley Addenda: Additional References to ABV, ARV2 & Paralipomena. 2nd ed. Compiled by T. H. Carpenter with T. Mannack and M. Mendonça. Oxford, 1989 52; Abbreviation: Hitzl, Die Entstehung und Entwicklung des VolutenkratersK. Hitzl. Die Entstehung und Entwicklung des Volutenkraters von den frühesten Anfängen bis zur Ausprägung des kanonischen Stils in der attisch schwarzfigurigen Vasenmalerei. Frankfurt, 1982, pp. 297–98, no. 34). See J. Neils, “The Euthymides Krater from Morgantina,” Abbreviation: AJAAmerican Journal of Archaeology 99 (1995): 428–31.
For figural decoration on both registers of the neck, see Abbreviation: Hitzl, Die Entstehung und Entwicklung des VolutenkratersK. Hitzl. Die Entstehung und Entwicklung des Volutenkraters von den frühesten Anfängen bis zur Ausprägung des kanonischen Stils in der attisch schwarzfigurigen Vasenmalerei. Frankfurt, 1982, pp. 115–20; Abbreviation: Schleiffenbaum, VolutenkraterH. E. Schleiffenbaum. Der griechische Volutenkrater: Form, Funktion, und Sinngehalt eines antiken Prunkgefässes. Frankfurt, 1991, pp. 57–60. The scheme is found mostly on black-figure volute-kraters. See Abbreviation: Hitzl, Die Entstehung und Entwicklung des VolutenkratersK. Hitzl. Die Entstehung und Entwicklung des Volutenkraters von den frühesten Anfängen bis zur Ausprägung des kanonischen Stils in der attisch schwarzfigurigen Vasenmalerei. Frankfurt, 1982, pp. 304–5, 317–24, 328–33, 340, 357, 365, 379, 382, 385, 398, 399, 419, 428, nos. 38, 45–48, 51–53, 60, 76, 84, 99, 102, 105, 118, 119, 140, 151; Abbreviation: Schleiffenbaum, VolutenkraterH. E. Schleiffenbaum. Der griechische Volutenkrater: Form, Funktion, und Sinngehalt eines antiken Prunkgefässes. Frankfurt, 1991, pp. 265, 270, 273, 275, 276, 279, 282, 285, 287, 293, 294, 306–8, 312–17, nos. V58, V71, V78, V81, V84, V92, V97d, V104, V108, V109, V123, V126, V163, V164, V165, V176, V180, V181, V183, V185. For red-figure examples, see a volute-krater by the Kleophrades Painter once in Freiburg, art market (Kunst der Antike: Galerie Günter Puhze [Freiburg, 1983], cat. no. 5, p. 21, no. 189); an unattributed neck fragment in Reggio Calabria, Museo Nazionale C 4006 (Abbreviation: Kunisch, “Zum helmhaltende Athena,”N. Kunisch. “Zum helmhaltende Athena.” Mitteilung des Deutschen Archäologischen Instituts, Athenische Abteilung 89 (1974): 85–104 p. 92, no. 98, pl. 47.1); a neck fragment near the Nikoxenos Painter in the Rhodes Museum without inv. no. (Abbreviation: ARV2J. D. Beazley. Attic Red-Figure Vase-Painters. 2nd ed. Oxford, 1963 223.4; Abbreviation: Schleiffenbaum, VolutenkraterH. E. Schleiffenbaum. Der griechische Volutenkrater: Form, Funktion, und Sinngehalt eines antiken Prunkgefässes. Frankfurt, 1991, p. 388, no. V335; G. Jacopi, Esplorazione archeologica di Camiro 2, Abbreviation: ClRhClara Rhodos: Studi e materiali pubblicati a cura dell’Istituto Storico-Archeologico di Rodi. Vols. 1–10. Bergamo, 1928–41 6/7 [Rhodes, 1932/39], p. 175, fig. 207). Herakles is a popular subject for decorating the necks of volute-kraters; see Abbreviation: Hitzl, Die Entstehung und Entwicklung des VolutenkratersK. Hitzl. Die Entstehung und Entwicklung des Volutenkraters von den frühesten Anfängen bis zur Ausprägung des kanonischen Stils in der attisch schwarzfigurigen Vasenmalerei. Frankfurt, 1982, pp. 286–432; Abbreviation: Schleiffenbaum, VolutenkraterH. E. Schleiffenbaum. Der griechische Volutenkrater: Form, Funktion, und Sinngehalt eines antiken Prunkgefässes. Frankfurt, 1991, pp. 257–404.
Close to the neck decoration of our vase is that of an unattributed black-figure volute-krater in Munich, Staatliche Antikensammlungen 1740 (Abbreviation: Hitzl, Die Entstehung und Entwicklung des VolutenkratersK. Hitzl. Die Entstehung und Entwicklung des Volutenkraters von den frühesten Anfängen bis zur Ausprägung des kanonischen Stils in der attisch schwarzfigurigen Vasenmalerei. Frankfurt, 1982, pp. 119, 125–26, 304–5, cat. no. 38, pls. 48–49a; Abbreviation: Schleiffenbaum, VolutenkraterH. E. Schleiffenbaum. Der griechische Volutenkrater: Form, Funktion, und Sinngehalt eines antiken Prunkgefässes. Frankfurt, 1991, p. 286, no. V106). The painter of this vase has also placed the figural decoration in two registers on the neck, leaving the body black, except for the zone with the black rays at the bottom of the body. Worthy of note is that the scenes with the abduction of Thetis by Peleus in the presence of Cheiron and with the arming of the Amazons are found on both vases and in the same registers.
The Kleophrades Painter divides all the scenes on the krater into triptychs, primarily using the “back to back” scheme. This seems to be characteristic of the painter; cf. a volute-krater once in Freiburg, art market (Kunst der Antike: Galerie Günter Puhze [Freiburg, 1983], cat. no. 5, p. 21, no. 189). Despite the limitations of space, he maintained his preference for narration. The miniaturist execution of the figures is of high quality and very carefully done. Except for the missing parts of the Amazonomachy on A, which does not allow for a full reconstruction, the rest of the scenes can be easily restored.
Frontal figures such as Atlas are a common feature in the work of the Kleophrades Painter: cf. a pointed amphora in Munich, Staatliche Antikensammlungen NI 8732 (Abbreviation: ARV2J. D. Beazley. Attic Red-Figure Vase-Painters. 2nd ed. Oxford, 1963 182.6; M. Tiverios, Archaia Aggeia [Athens, 1996], pp. 134–35, 296, figs. 106–7); a hydria in Salerno, Museo Archeologico Provinciale 1371 (Abbreviation: ARV2J. D. Beazley. Attic Red-Figure Vase-Painters. 2nd ed. Oxford, 1963 188.67; J. Boardman, in Abbreviation: LIMCLexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae. 1981–2009, vol. 5 [1990], pt. 1, p. 156, no. 3233, s.v. “Herakles”); a skyphos in Florence, Museo Archeologico 4218 (Abbreviation: ARV2J. D. Beazley. Attic Red-Figure Vase-Painters. 2nd ed. Oxford, 1963 191.102; S. Colvin, “On Representations of Centaurs in Greek Vase-Painting,” Abbreviation: JHSJournal of Hellenic Studies 1 [1880]: 139–47, pl. 3).
The Amazonomachy was a popular subject in Greek art during the Archaic and Classical periods. For Amazonomachies with Herakles, see D. von Bothmer, Amazons in Greek Art (Oxford, 1957), pp. 6–10, 30–63, 111–12, 115, 117, 120; M. Schmidt, “Zu Amazonomachiedarstellungen der Berliner Malers und des Euphronios,” in Tainia: Festschrift für Roland Hampe, ed. H. A. Cahn and E. Simon (Mainz am Rhein, 1980), pp. 153–69; Kauffmann-Samaras, “Amazones” (supra), pp. 587–97; J. Boardman, “Herakles, Theseus and Amazons,” in The Eye of Greece: Studies in the Art of Athens, ed. D. Kurtz and B. Sparkes (Cambridge, 1982), pp. 1–28; W. Blake Tyrrel, Amazons: A Study in Athenian Mythmaking (Baltimore, 1984); Abbreviation: Brommer, “Herakles und Theseus,”F. Brommer. “Herakles und Theseus auf Vasen in Malibu.” Greek Vases in the J. Paul Getty Museum, vol. 2, pp. 183–228 pp. 183–89; Abbreviation: Schefold and Jung, Die Urkönige PerseusK. Schefold and F. Jung. Die Urkönige Perseus, Bellerophon, Herakles und Theseus in der klassischen und hellenistischen Kunst. Munich, 1988, pp. 154–60; J. Henderson, “Timeo Danaos: Amazons in Early Greek Art and Pottery,” in Art and Text in Ancient Greek Culture, ed. S. Goldhill and R. Osborne (Cambridge, 1994), pp. 85–137; Saunders, “An Amazonomachy Attributed to the Syleus Painter” (supra), pp. 187–96. Cf. the cup by the Kleophrades Painter in Paris, Abbreviation: Cab. Méd.Cabinet des Médailles, Paris 535 (Abbreviation: ARV2J. D. Beazley. Attic Red-Figure Vase-Painters. 2nd ed. Oxford, 1963 191.103; Beazley, Kleophrades Painter (supra), pp. 9–10, pls. 11–12), for a similar arrangement (note the use again of a centaur as the shield device for the Amazon attacking Herakles) and the presence of both heroes (Herakles and Telamonian Ajax) in the scene. For other examples following the pattern of the same two heroes fighting back to back against the Amazons, cf. the volute-krater by Euphronios in Arezzo, Museo Archeologico Mecenate 1465 (Abbreviation: ARV2J. D. Beazley. Attic Red-Figure Vase-Painters. 2nd ed. Oxford, 1963 15.6; von Bothmer, Amazons in Greek Art [supra], pl. 69.3); the volute-krater by Euthymides from Morgantina, Aidone, Museo Archeologico 58.2382 (Abbreviation: ARV2J. D. Beazley. Attic Red-Figure Vase-Painters. 2nd ed. Oxford, 1963 128.10, 1620; Abbreviation: Beazley Addenda2Beazley Addenda: Additional References to ABV, ARV2 & Paralipomena. 2nd ed. Compiled by T. H. Carpenter with T. Mannack and M. Mendonça. Oxford, 1989 156; J. Neils, “The Euthymides Krater from Morgantina,” Abbreviation: AJAAmerican Journal of Archaeology 99 [1995]: 427–44); a kantharos by Douris in Brussels, Musées Royaux d’Art et d’Histoire A 718 (Abbreviation: ARV2J. D. Beazley. Attic Red-Figure Vase-Painters. 2nd ed. Oxford, 1963 445.256, 1653; Abbreviation: ParalipomenaJ. D. Beazley. Paralipomena: Additions to Attic Black-Figure Vase-Painters and to Attic Red-Figure Vase-Painters. Oxford, 1971 521; Abbreviation: Beazley Addenda2Beazley Addenda: Additional References to ABV, ARV2 & Paralipomena. 2nd ed. Compiled by T. H. Carpenter with T. Mannack and M. Mendonça. Oxford, 1989 241; Abbreviation: CVACorpus Vasorum Antiquorum Brussels 1 [Belgium 1], pls. 5–6). See the comments in Abbreviation: PandoraPandora: Women in Classical Greece. Exh. cat. Walters Art Gallery. Edited by E. D. Reeder. Baltimore, 1995 by E. Reeder, p. 375, and C. Benson, p. 376.
While all the Amazons use spears, Herakles uses a sword. Worthy of note is that Ajax holds a machaira, a type of single-edged sword with a distinctive hooklike pommel designed for slashing rather than for stabbing. For the machaira, see A. Snodgrass, Arms and Armour of the Greeks (London, 1967), p. 97; F. Quesada Sanz, “La falcata Ibérica: ¿Un arma de origen ilirio y procedencia itálica?,” in Archivo Español de Arqueología 63 (1990): 65–93; J. K. Anderson, “Hoplite Weapons and Offensive Arms,” in Hoplites: The Classical Greek Battle Experience, ed. V. Hanson (London, 1991), pp. 26, 32; P. Bonnechere, “‘La μάχαιρα était dissimulée dans le κανουν’: Quelques interrogations,” Abbreviation: REARevue des études anciennes 101 (1999): 21–35; T. H. Carpenter, “Harmodios and Apollo in Fifth-Century Athens: What’s in a Pose?,” in Abbreviation: Athenian Potters and PaintersAthenian Potters and Painters: The Conference Proceedings. 3 vols. Vol. 1, edited by J. H. Oakley, W. D. E. Coulson, and O. Palagia. Oxbow Monograph 67. Vol. 2, edited by J. H. Oakley and O. Palagia. Vol. 3, edited by J. H. Oakley. Oxford, 1997 (vol. 1), 2009 (vol. 2), 2014 (vol. 3), vol. 1, pp. 172–74, where the machaira is considered a “barbaric” weapon. In this case, it is strange that Ajax and not an Amazon holds the machaira. Ibid., p. 178, note 16, also mentions that the Kleophrades Painter is the earliest known to include the appropriate scabbard for the machaira. For the use of a machaira in the Amazonomachy, see P. Devambez, in Abbreviation: LIMCLexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae. 1981–2009, vol. 1 (1981), pt. 1, pp. 586–653, s.v. “Amazones.” The machaira is also found in the Gigantomachy; cf. a stamnos by the Tyszkiewicz Painter in London, British Museum E 443 (Abbreviation: ARV2J. D. Beazley. Attic Red-Figure Vase-Painters. 2nd ed. Oxford, 1963 292.29; Abbreviation: CVACorpus Vasorum Antiquorum London 3 [Great Britain 4], pl. 21.3).
The preparation for battle of the Amazons on side B could be recognized as the scene before the battle depicted on A. This is also supported by the salpinx, which was blown before or after battle.
For the salpinx, see S. Michailidis, Enkyklopaideia tēs archaias hellēnikēs mousikēs (Athens, 1982), pp. 278–79; M. Tiverios, Perikleia Panathēnaia: Henas kratēras tou z. tou Monachou 2335 (Thessaloniki, 1989), pp. 37–40, with earlier bibliography; P. Krenz, “The Salpinx in Greek Warfare,” in Hanson, Hoplites (supra), pp. 110–20; T. J. Mathiesen, Apollo’s Lyre: Greek Music and Music Theory in Antiquity and the Middle Ages (Lincoln, Neb., 1999), pp. 230–34; J. R. Hale, “Salpinx and Salpinktes: Trumpet and Trumpeter in Ancient Greece,” in Literature, Art, History: Studies on Classical Antiquity and Tradition in Honour of W. J. Anderson, ed. A. F. Basson and W. J. Dominik (Frankfurt, 2003), pp. 267–73; Abbreviation: Bundrick, Music and ImageS. D. Bundrick. Music and Image in Classical Athens. Cambridge, 2005, pp. 44–46; N. Xanthoulis, “The Salpinx in Greek Antiquity,” International Trumpet Guild Journal 31 (October 2006): 39–45; P. Holmes, “The Greek and Etruscan Salpinx,” Studien zu Musikarchäologie 6 (2008): 241–60; J. Neils, “‘Bronze-Belled Braying’: The Salpinx in Athenian Art,” in Essays on Greek Pottery and Iconography in Honour of Professor Michalis Tiverios, ed. P. Valavanis and E. Manakidou (Thessaloniki, 2014), pp. 257–70.
The salpinx is mainly a warlike instrument with a military use—for example, to signal the beginning of a battle, which in our case is depicted on the other side of the krater. Moreover, the salpinx gave cavalry signals (Xenophon, Hipparch. 3.12), something that also coincides with the depicted scene. In Attic vase-painting it is found mostly in battle scenes and less often in Dionysiac contexts, rituals, and athletics (see Neils, “‘Bronze-Belled Braying’” [supra], pp. 258–66). Trumpeting Amazons are found in Late Archaic Athenian iconography; cf. a red-figure hydria by Hypsis in Munich, Staatliche Antikensammlungen 2423 (Abbreviation: ARV2J. D. Beazley. Attic Red-Figure Vase-Painters. 2nd ed. Oxford, 1963 30.1; Abbreviation: Beazley Addenda2Beazley Addenda: Additional References to ABV, ARV2 & Paralipomena. 2nd ed. Compiled by T. H. Carpenter with T. Mannack and M. Mendonça. Oxford, 1989 156; Abbreviation: Bundrick, Music and ImageS. D. Bundrick. Music and Image in Classical Athens. Cambridge, 2005, p. 46, fig. 29); a red-figure cup by Oltos in the Vatican AST 47 (Abbreviation: ARV2J. D. Beazley. Attic Red-Figure Vase-Painters. 2nd ed. Oxford, 1963 47.152; Abbreviation: Beazley Addenda2Beazley Addenda: Additional References to ABV, ARV2 & Paralipomena. 2nd ed. Compiled by T. H. Carpenter with T. Mannack and M. Mendonça. Oxford, 1989 78; B. Cohen, Attic Bilingual Vases [New York, 1978], pl. 85.1,2); a red-figure kalpis by the Leningrad Painter in London, British Museum E 167 (Abbreviation: ARV2J. D. Beazley. Attic Red-Figure Vase-Painters. 2nd ed. Oxford, 1963 571.77; Abbreviation: CVACorpus Vasorum Antiquorum London 5 [Great Britain 7], pp. 11–12, pls. 73.1, 79.1); a red-figure stamnos by the Eucharides Painter in St. Petersburg, State Hermitage Museum 642 (Abbreviation: ARV2J. D. Beazley. Attic Red-Figure Vase-Painters. 2nd ed. Oxford, 1963 228.30; Abbreviation: ParalipomenaJ. D. Beazley. Paralipomena: Additions to Attic Black-Figure Vase-Painters and to Attic Red-Figure Vase-Painters. Oxford, 1971 347, 510; Abbreviation: Beazley Addenda2Beazley Addenda: Additional References to ABV, ARV2 & Paralipomena. 2nd ed. Compiled by T. H. Carpenter with T. Mannack and M. Mendonça. Oxford, 1989 199; C. Ellinghaus, Die Parthenonskulpturen: Der Bauschmuck eines öffentlichen Monumentes der demokratischen Gesellschaft Athens zur Zeit des Perikles, Techniken in der bildenden Kunst zur Tradierung von Aussagen [Hamburg, 2011], fig. 122); a red-figure stamnos by the Tyszkiewicz Painter in Brussels, Musées Royaux A3092 (Abbreviation: ARV2J. D. Beazley. Attic Red-Figure Vase-Painters. 2nd ed. Oxford, 1963 291.21; Abbreviation: CVACorpus Vasorum Antiquorum Brussels 3 [Belgium 3], p. 13, pl. 23.1).
For Herakles’s labors, see Abbreviation: Brommer, HeraclesF. Brommer. Heracles: The Twelve Labors of the Hero in Ancient Art and Literature. Translated and enlarged by S. J. Schwarz. New Rochelle, N.Y., 1986; R. Vollkommer, Herakles in the Art of Classical Greece (Oxford, 1998); Abbreviation: Schefold and Jung, Die Urkönige PerseusK. Schefold and F. Jung. Die Urkönige Perseus, Bellerophon, Herakles und Theseus in der klassischen und hellenistischen Kunst. Munich, 1988, pp. 135–66; Boardman, “Herakles: Dodekathlos” (supra), pp. 5–16; G. Kokkorou-Alewras, “Herakles and the Lernean Hydra” (supra), pp. 34–43; P. Brize, “Herakles and the Lernean Hydra” (supra), pp. 73–85; G. Kokkorou-Alewras, in Abbreviation: LIMCLexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae. 1981–2009, vol. 5 (1990), pt. 1, pp. 100–111, s.v. “Herakles and the Hesperides”; I. Sforza, “I pomi d’oro delle Esperidi: Un viaggio verso l’immortalità,” Atene e Roma 3–4 (2010): 213–26. See also Abbreviation: Brommer, “Herakles und Theseus,”F. Brommer. “Herakles und Theseus auf Vasen in Malibu.” Greek Vases in the J. Paul Getty Museum, vol. 2, pp. 183–228 pp. 189–203.
It is worth noting that the vase-painter has depicted the labors in the order in which they supposedly took place.
Pausanias (2.37.4) claims that Peisandros invented the idea of a Hydra with many heads to make his account more impressive. A scholion to the Theogony adds that Alkaios (443 frg.) gave her nine heads (see fragments of Sappho and Alkaios cited according to E. Lobel and D. L. Page, Poetarum lesbiorum fragmenta [Oxford, 1955]). The nine-headed Hydra is found in several literary sources (Apollodorus, Bibliotheca 2.5.2; Hyginus, Fabulae 151; Suda, s.v. “Hydra”) and is common in representations throughout the fifth century B.C. During this period the Hydra is normally shown with nine or seven heads, with some exceptions that vary from three to eleven heads (see G. Kokkorou-Alewras, “Herakles and the Lernean Hydra” [supra], pp. 42–43). For the chronological appearance of literary sources regarding the myth, see Gantz, Early Greek Myth (supra), pp. 384–86. For Herakles’s labor with the Hydra, see also Abbreviation: CVACorpus Vasorum Antiquorum Basel, Antikenmuseum 1 (Switzerland 4), pp. 41–43, pl. 11.10–13; P. Amandry and D. Amyx, “Héraclès et l’hydre de Lerne dans la céramique corinthienne,” Abbreviation: AKAntike Kunst 25 (1982): 102–16; J.-J. Maffre, “Le combat d’Héraclès contre l’hydre de Lerne dans la collection de vases grecs du Louvre,” Revue du Louvre et des musées de France 35 (1985): 83–95; Abbreviation: Brommer, HeraclesF. Brommer. Heracles: The Twelve Labors of the Hero in Ancient Art and Literature. Translated and enlarged by S. J. Schwarz. New Rochelle, N.Y., 1986, pp. 12–18. Athena standing behind Herakles while he fights with the Hydra is not rare in Attic vase-painting: cf. a cup by the Ashby Painter in Athens, Agora P 7899 (Abbreviation: ARV2J. D. Beazley. Attic Red-Figure Vase-Painters. 2nd ed. Oxford, 1963 455.12; Abbreviation: Agora 30M. B. Moore. Attic Red-Figured and White-Ground Pottery. The Athenian Agora, vol. 30. Princeton, 1997, p. 309, no. 1340, pl. 125); an oinochoe in St. Petersburg, Hermitage B 4257 (Abbreviation: Brommer, HeraclesF. Brommer. Heracles: The Twelve Labors of the Hero in Ancient Art and Literature. Translated and enlarged by S. J. Schwarz. New Rochelle, N.Y., 1986, pl. 14). The placement of Herakles to the left of the Hydra with Iolaos to the right is typical. Iolaos is shown as a hoplite in Archaic black-figure vase-painting: cf. a Tyrrhenian amphora by the Castellani Painter, once on the art market in Rome (Abbreviation: ABVJ. D. Beazley. Attic Black-Figure Vase-Painters. Oxford, 1956 97.25; Abbreviation: ParalipomenaJ. D. Beazley. Paralipomena: Additions to Attic Black-Figure Vase-Painters and to Attic Red-Figure Vase-Painters. Oxford, 1971 35.37; J. Kluiver, “The Five Later ‘Tyrrhenian’ Painters,” Abbreviation: BABeschBulletin antieke beschaving. Annual Papers on Classical Archaeology 71 [1996]: 9, no. 181); a white-ground lekythos in the manner of the Theseus Painter in Agrigento, Museo Archeologico Regionale C869 (Abbreviation: ABVJ. D. Beazley. Attic Black-Figure Vase-Painters. Oxford, 1956 521; C. H. E. Haspels, Attic Black-Figured Lekythoi [Paris, 1936], 254.2; Abbreviation: CVACorpus Vasorum Antiquorum Agrigento 1 [Italy 61], pls. 75.1–2, 76.1–2); a neck amphora by the Diosphos Painter in Paris, Louvre F 387 (Haspels, Attic Black-Figured Lekythoi [supra], 238.132; F. Lissarrague, Greek Vases: The Athenians and Their Images [New York, 2001], p. 166, fig. 126); and red-figure vase-painting: cf. an amphora by the Kleophrades Painter in Cologny, Fond. M. Bodmer (Maffre, “Le combat d’Héraclès contre l’hydre de Lerne” [supra], p. 89, fig. 10); a stamnos by the Syleus Painter in Palermo, Museo Nazionale V 763 (275) (Abbreviation: ARV2J. D. Beazley. Attic Red-Figure Vase-Painters. 2nd ed. Oxford, 1963 251.34; Abbreviation: CVACorpus Vasorum Antiquorum Palermo, Collezione Mormino, Banco di Sicilia 1 [Italy 50], pl. 31.4); perhaps a fragmentary cup by the Ashby Painter in Athens, Agora P 7899 (Abbreviation: ARV2J. D. Beazley. Attic Red-Figure Vase-Painters. 2nd ed. Oxford, 1963 455.12; Abbreviation: Agora 30M. B. Moore. Attic Red-Figured and White-Ground Pottery. The Athenian Agora, vol. 30. Princeton, 1997, p. 309, no. 1340, pl. 125).
The labor with Geryon is more popular in black-figure than on red-figure vases. For the setting, cf. a red-figure cup by Euphronios in Munich, Staatliche Antikensammlungen 8704 (Abbreviation: ARV2J. D. Beazley. Attic Red-Figure Vase-Painters. 2nd ed. Oxford, 1963 16–17.17, 1619; Abbreviation: ParalipomenaJ. D. Beazley. Paralipomena: Additions to Attic Black-Figure Vase-Painters and to Attic Red-Figure Vase-Painters. Oxford, 1971 322; Abbreviation: Beazley Addenda2Beazley Addenda: Additional References to ABV, ARV2 & Paralipomena. 2nd ed. Compiled by T. H. Carpenter with T. Mannack and M. Mendonça. Oxford, 1989 153; F. W. Hamdorf, in Abbreviation: Euphronios der MalerEuphronios der Maler: Katalog zur Ausstellung in der Sonderausstellungshalle der Staatlichen Museen Preußischer Kulturbesitz Berlin-Dahlem, 20.3.–26.5.1991. Milan, 1991, pp. 199–204, cat. no. 41), depicting the scene with the involvement of the same figures (Herakles, Geryon, Orthros, Eurytion). The version of Eurytion being killed while asleep is rare (cf. the representations in Zervoudaki, “Eurytion II” [supra], pp. 112–17). Based on Eurytion’s posture, perhaps this is the case here; this might be an innovation of the Kleophrades Painter.
Except for the number of the heads, Ladon is depicted almost like the Hydra. Normally Ladon has one head; three heads is very rare. For another example, cf. a hydria in Paris, Abbreviation: Cab. Méd.Cabinet des Médailles, Paris 4820 (J. D. Beazley, Attische Vasenmaler des rotfigurigen Stils [Tübingen, 1925], p. 320, no. 17 [attributed to the Amymone Painter]). Cf. also a neck amphora attributed to the manner of Euphronios in St. Petersburg, Hermitage B 2351 (A. Bukina, A. Petrakova, and C. Phillips, Greek Vases in the Imperial Hermitage Museum: The History of the Collection, 1816–69, with Addenda et Corrigenda to Ludolf Stephani, “Die Vasen-Sammlung der Kaiserlichen Ermitage” (1869) [Oxford, 2013], p. 156, fig. 103). The image of Herakles picking the apples on his own is not common in Attic red-figure; for other examples, see Kokkorou-Alewras, “Herakles and the Hesperides” (supra), pp. 102–3.
Pegasos is a trademark on the Kleophrades Painter’s shields, particularly on the Panathenaic amphorae. See Frel, “The Kleophrades Painter in Malibu” (supra), p. 70; Matheson, “Panathenaic Amphorae by the Kleophrades Painter” (supra), pp. 95, 100; Abbreviation: Kunze-Götte, Der Kleophrades-MalerE. Kunze-Götte. Der Kleophrades-Maler unter Malern schwarzfigurigen Amphoren. Mainz, 1992, p. 19; M. Bentz, Panathenäische Preisamphoren: Eine athenische Vasengattung und ihre Funktion vom 6.–4. Jahrhundert v. Chr. (Basel, 1998), pp. 48–49.
For Atlas supporting the heavens, cf. a cup by Makron in Bochum, Ruhr-Universität S 1168 (N. Kunisch, Erläuterung zur griechischen Vasenmalerei [Bochum, 1996], pp. 161–65); Mommsen, “Prometheus oder Atlas?” (supra).
For Athena and Herakles, see N. Kunisch, “Athena und Herakles: Entwicklung bildlicher Mythen im 5. Jahrhundert v. Chr.,” in Mythos: Erzählende Weltdeutung im Spannungsfeld von Ritual, Geschichte und Rationalität (Trier, 1990), pp. 75–89.
For the seated Athena, see Abbreviation: Kunisch, “Zum helmhaltende Athena,”N. Kunisch. “Zum helmhaltende Athena.” Mitteilung des Deutschen Archäologischen Instituts, Athenische Abteilung 89 (1974): 85–104 esp. p. 92, nos. 96–108. On the neck fragment in Reggio Calabria, Museo Nazionale C 4006 (Abbreviation: Kunisch, “Zum helmhaltende Athena,”N. Kunisch. “Zum helmhaltende Athena.” Mitteilung des Deutschen Archäologischen Instituts, Athenische Abteilung 89 (1974): 85–104 pl. 47a), the seated goddess watches the hero wrestling; the subject might be Herakles with the Nemean Lion or the Marathonian Bull. For Athena’s types, see P. Demargne, in Abbreviation: LIMCLexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae. 1981–2009, vol. 2 (1984), pt. 1, pp. 955–1044, s.v. “Athena”; B. S. Ridgway, “Images of Athena on the Akropolis,” in Abbreviation: Goddess and PolisGoddess and Polis: The Panathenaic Festival in Ancient Athens. Edited by J. Neils and E. J. W. Barber. Princeton, 1992, pp. 119–42.
The wrestling of Peleus and Thetis is also found on other vases attributed to the Kleophrades Painter. Cf. the fragmentary red-figure stamnos in Malibu, J. Paul Getty Museum 81.AE.220 (Abbreviation: Barringer, Divine EscortsJ. M. Barringer. Divine Escorts: Nereids in Archaic and Classical Greek Art. Anne Arbor, Mich., 1995, pl. 100); an amphora of Type A in a private collection attributed to the painter by J.-L. Zimmermann (J.-L. Zimmermann, in Art Antique: Collections privées de Suisse Romande, ed. J. Dörig [Geneva, 1975], no. 204; for an attribution of this vase to the Dikaios Painter by D. von Bothmer, see his Glories of the Past: Ancient Art from the Shelby White and Leon Levy Collection [New York, 1990], pp. 153–54, no. 115). The depiction of the theme on a volute-krater is extremely rare in Attic vase-painting (for another example, see the black-figure volute-krater in Munich, Staatliche Antikensammlungen 1740 [supra]); see Vollkommer, “Peleus” (supra), pp. 255–69. For the Kleophrades Painter and the subject, see Boardman, “The Kleophrades Painter at Troy” (supra), pp. 3–4.
For Peleus and Thetis, see J. Kaiser, Peleus und Thetis: Eine sagengeschichtliche Untersuchung (Munich, 1912); Krieger, “Der Kampf zwischen Peleus und Thetis” (supra); Abbreviation: Barringer, Divine EscortsJ. M. Barringer. Divine Escorts: Nereids in Archaic and Classical Greek Art. Anne Arbor, Mich., 1995, pp. 69–77; C. Sourvinou-Inwood, “A Series of Erotic Pursuits: Images and Meanings,” Abbreviation: JHSJournal of Hellenic Studies 107 (1987): 138–39; E. Reeder, “Peleus and Thetis,” in Abbreviation: PandoraPandora: Women in Classical Greece. Exh. cat. Walters Art Gallery. Edited by E. D. Reeder. Baltimore, 1995, pp. 340–51; Vollkommer, “Peleus” (supra), pp. 255–69, s.v. “Peleus”; idem, in Abbreviation: LIMCLexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae. 1981–2009, vol. 8 (1997), pt. 1, pp. 6–9, s.v. “Thetis.” For pursuit scenes, see also entry no. 5 (86.AE.206). The scene belongs to Krieger’s “Umklammerungstypus” (the struggle type), which dominates the extant Attic representations of the subject. Cf. also two other vases by the Kleophrades Painter depicting the subject: a fragmentary red-figure stamnos in Malibu, J. Paul Getty Museum 81.AE.220 (Abbreviation: Barringer, Divine EscortsJ. M. Barringer. Divine Escorts: Nereids in Archaic and Classical Greek Art. Anne Arbor, Mich., 1995, pl. 100) and a cup in London, British Museum E 73 (Abbreviation: ARV2J. D. Beazley. Attic Red-Figure Vase-Painters. 2nd ed. Oxford, 1963 192.106; Abbreviation: Barringer, Divine EscortsJ. M. Barringer. Divine Escorts: Nereids in Archaic and Classical Greek Art. Anne Arbor, Mich., 1995, p. 194, no. 132).
The symmetrical arrangement with three figures on each end of the scene moving away from the central group highlights the setting with the struggling couple and Cheiron. The composition with the two protagonists wrestling in the center and flanked by Cheiron to the left and a fleeing Nereid to the right is found on a black-figure belly-amphora, Munich 1415.WAF near the Leagros Group (Abbreviation: Barringer, Divine EscortsJ. M. Barringer. Divine Escorts: Nereids in Archaic and Classical Greek Art. Anne Arbor, Mich., 1995, pl. 71). The centaur is again depicted with human forelegs and holds a branch over his shoulder. The similarity extends to the Nereid who is fleeing to the right while looking back toward Thetis and holding her garment with her right hand. This arrangement with Cheiron standing next to the couple is found primarily in black-figure, whereas in red-figure he is usually placed farther away (for another exception, see a hydria in Münzen und Medaillen Sonderliste N [Basel, 1971]: 15, no. 10). For Attic vases depicting Cheiron in the scene, see Vollkommer, “Peleus” (supra), pp. 256, 261–63; Gisler-Huwiler, “Cheiron” (supra), pp. 239–40. For Cheiron, see also M. Vogel, Chiron der Kentaur mit der Kithara (Bonn, 1978).
Centaurs from Geometric and Archaic times are normally depicted as ordinary men with human feet and the rear end of a horse grafted on. For centaurs with human forelegs, see B. Schiffer, Die Typologie der Kentauren in der antiken Kunst (Frankfurt am Main, 1976), pp. 30–37, 257–61, nos. A/Ch1–41; J. M. Padgett, “Horse Men: Centaurs and Satyrs in Early Greek Art,” in Abbreviation: Padgett, Centaur’s SmileJ. M. Padgett, with contributions by W. A. P. Childs et al. The Centaur’s Smile: The Human Animal in Early Greek Art. Princeton, 2003, pp. 3–46, with previous bibliography. For centaurs, see also Colvin, “On Representations of Centaurs in Greek Vase-Painting” (supra), pp. 107–67; P. V. C. Baur, Centaurs in Ancient Art (Berlin, 1912); E. Buschor, “Kentauren,” Abbreviation: AJAAmerican Journal of Archaeology 38 (1934): 128–32; S. Drougou et al., in Abbreviation: LIMCLexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae. 1981–2009, vol. 8 (1997), pt. 1, pp. 671–721, s.v. “Kentauroi et Kentaurides”; G. Morawietz, Der gesämte Kentaur (Munich, 2000).
For the presence of Doris in an illustration of this myth, cf. a cup by Douris in Paris, Louvre G 116 (Abbreviation: ARV2J. D. Beazley. Attic Red-Figure Vase-Painters. 2nd ed. Oxford, 1963 431.44; Abbreviation: Beazley Addenda2Beazley Addenda: Additional References to ABV, ARV2 & Paralipomena. 2nd ed. Compiled by T. H. Carpenter with T. Mannack and M. Mendonça. Oxford, 1989 236; Abbreviation: Barringer, Divine EscortsJ. M. Barringer. Divine Escorts: Nereids in Archaic and Classical Greek Art. Anne Arbor, Mich., 1995, pp. 195–96, no. 141). For Nereus depicted as an old man seated, cf. a cup by the Kleophrades Painter in London, British Museum E 73 (Abbreviation: ARV2J. D. Beazley. Attic Red-Figure Vase-Painters. 2nd ed. Oxford, 1963 192.106; Abbreviation: ParalipomenaJ. D. Beazley. Paralipomena: Additions to Attic Black-Figure Vase-Painters and to Attic Red-Figure Vase-Painters. Oxford, 1971 341; Abbreviation: Beazley Addenda2Beazley Addenda: Additional References to ABV, ARV2 & Paralipomena. 2nd ed. Compiled by T. H. Carpenter with T. Mannack and M. Mendonça. Oxford, 1989 189; Abbreviation: Barringer, Divine EscortsJ. M. Barringer. Divine Escorts: Nereids in Archaic and Classical Greek Art. Anne Arbor, Mich., 1995, p. 194, no. 132); a cup by the Euergides Painter in London, British Museum E 9 (Abbreviation: ARV2J. D. Beazley. Attic Red-Figure Vase-Painters. 2nd ed. Oxford, 1963 89.13; 1625; Abbreviation: Beazley Addenda2Beazley Addenda: Additional References to ABV, ARV2 & Paralipomena. 2nd ed. Compiled by T. H. Carpenter with T. Mannack and M. Mendonça. Oxford, 1989 170; Abbreviation: Barringer, Divine EscortsJ. M. Barringer. Divine Escorts: Nereids in Archaic and Classical Greek Art. Anne Arbor, Mich., 1995, p. 193, no. 125); a stamnos by the Deepdene Painter in Würzburg, Martin von Wagner Museum der Universität L 519 (Abbreviation: ARV2J. D. Beazley. Attic Red-Figure Vase-Painters. 2nd ed. Oxford, 1963 498.3; Abbreviation: Barringer, Divine EscortsJ. M. Barringer. Divine Escorts: Nereids in Archaic and Classical Greek Art. Anne Arbor, Mich., 1995, p. 196, no. 146). See also Pipili, “Nereus” (supra), pp. 830–32.
For the transparency of the garment on the Nereid, cf. the Harpies on a kalpis by the Kleophrades Painter formerly in Malibu, J. Paul Getty Museum 85.AE.316 (“Acquisitions/1985,” Abbreviation: GettyMusJThe J. Paul Getty Museum Journal 14 [1986]: 192, no. 51), now held by Soprintendenza speciale per i beni archeologici di Napoli e Pompei (http://www.archeologia.beniculturali.it); at Abbreviation: BAPDBeazley Archive Pottery Database. http://www.beazley.ox.ac.uk 30369, the current location is given as Museo Nazionale Etrusco di Villa Giulia.