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🎨 Attic Red-Figure Calyx Krater by the Dinos Painter (CAMU Δ 2500; Beazley 215260; LIMC Alkyone II 1)

  • Date ca. 420 BCE (Canellopoulos); 450 to 400 BCE (BAPD); 430 to 420 BCE (Digital LIMC). Identification of scene (two figures on left are Idas and Lynceus on basis of inscription 'Lyk-'): Α. Choremi-Spetsieri and Α. Zarkadas (eds), Τhe Paul and Alexandra Canellopoulos Museum: Ancient Art (Athens, 2006) p. 136-139; extra information (CAVI (quoted in BAPD) interpret the woman holding the child as a nurse rather than Cleopatra. NB. The child is typically identified as Parthenopaios, whom Hyginus (Fab. 70, 270) and Schol. Stat. Theb. 4.309 say was son of Meleager and Atalante. But since these sources are much later than this vase, we identify the child rather as 'Son of Meleagros and Cleopatra'): Greta Hawes. Accession date (donated to Greek state in 1972).
  • Source subtype
    Vessel
    Period
    Middle Classical (ca. 450-400 BCE)
    Place of creation
    🌍 Attica
    Archaeological context
    No place of recovery captured by MANTO
    UNESCO status
    In a collection or on the market prior to ratification
    Collection
    Μουσείο Παύλου και Αλεξάνδρας Κανελλοπούλου / Paul and Alexandra Canellopoulos Museum, Athens
    Inventory number
    Δ 2500
    Artifact URL
    https://www.manto-myth.org/blog/artifacts-in-manto-whats-in-name
    BAPD vase number
    215260
    BAPD URL
    https://www.beazley.ox.ac.uk/record/1DCBEBE8-5C60-448D-A679-51E1605B995B
    LIMC catalog references
    Alkyone II 1; Meleagros 4; Oineus I 38; Parthenopaios 14
    Digital LIMC URL
    https://ark.dasch.swiss/ark:/72163/1/080E/Rfw8Epz1UBWSOUP2V6ReMAl
    Has depictions of
    👤 Althaia daughter of Thestios, mother of Meleagros👤 Cleopatra (Messenian & Calydonian) wife of Meleagros, daughter of Idas👤 Idas (Argonaut) son of Aphareus, Calydonian boar hunter, Argonaut👤 Lynceus (Argonaut) son of Aphareus, Calydonian boar hunter, Argonaut👤 Meleagros led Calydonian Boar hunt, Argonaut👤 Oineus (Calydonian) king of Calydon👤 Son of Meleagros and Cleopatra (name unknown)👥 the Hunters of the Calydonian Boar led by Meleagros
    Commentary
    Date ca. 420 BCE (Canellopoulos); 450 to 400 BCE (BAPD); 430 to 420 BCE (Digital LIMC). Identification of scene (two figures on left are Idas and Lynceus on basis of inscription 'Lyk-'): Α. Choremi-Spetsieri and Α. Zarkadas (eds), Τhe Paul and Alexandra Canellopoulos Museum: Ancient Art (Athens, 2006) p. 136-139; extra information (CAVI (quoted in BAPD) interpret the woman holding the child as a nurse rather than Cleopatra. NB. The child is typically identified as Parthenopaios, whom Hyginus (Fab. 70, 270) and Schol. Stat. Theb. 4.309 say was son of Meleager and Atalante. But since these sources are much later than this vase, we identify the child rather as 'Son of Meleagros and Cleopatra'): Greta Hawes. Accession date (donated to Greek state in 1972).
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