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Three Attic Vases in the Museum of Valletta1

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 December 2013

A. Cambitoglou
A. Cambitoglou
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University of Mississippi
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On Pll. II–III and figs. 1–4, p. 8, I reproduce photographs of three Attic vases in the Museum of Valletta already published by Albert Mayr in Sitzgsb. d. philos.-philol. u. d. hist. Kl. der Kgl. Bayer. Akademie der Wissenschaften 1905, Heft III, pl. II, 1, 4 and 5.

The first vase (Pl. II) is a late black-figured skyphos, height 165 mm.; diameter 222 mm. The obverse represents a chariot with two Amazons; the subject on the reverse is similar, but the second Amazon is here omitted. On both sides the scene is flanked by two sphinxes looking towards the handles. The vase belongs to the group of the CHC skyphoi, on which see Ure, Sixth and Fifth, p. 61, 26. 98–100 and Beazley, Some Attic Vases In the Cyprus Museum, pp. 22–3. For a list of vases of this group see Ure, CVI, Reading, p. 18.

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The Journal of Hellenic Studies , Volume 75 , November 1955 , pp. 7
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Copyright © The Society for the Promotion of Hellenic Studies 1955

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2 The vases were first mentioned by Houel, Jean in Voyage Pittoresque des Isles de Sicile, de Lipari et de Malte (Paris, 1787), vol. 4, p. 94Google Scholar, and first published by Caruana, A. A. in his Ancient Pottery from the Ancient Pagan Tombs and Christian Cemeteries in the Islands of Malta (Malta, 1899), Pl. XII, 1–3Google Scholar; Caruana says that they were found in a tomb near Saura Hospital outside Rabat.

3 The enclosure is surrounded by a row of dots, and I could not find any parallels to its shape in any other Attic red-figured vase representing such a subject.

4 See the vases mentioned by Beazley in his list of mythological subjects in ARV under Pandora and Anesidora. Beazley believes that the rising woman on London E467, ARV, 420, 21, is Pandora, and so does Metzger, (Les représentations dans la céramique attigue du IVe siècle, p. 73)Google Scholar, but Brommer interprets her as Aphrodite because of Ares', presence (Satyroi, p. 14Google Scholar; Pan in Marburger Jb. für Kunstwissenschaft, 1949–50, pp. 23–4), and with him Rumpf, agrees (Anadyomene, Jb. 1950–1951, p. 171).Google Scholar

5 See Beazley, , Oxford CV, text to Pl. 21, 1–2Google Scholar, and Buschor, , Feldmäuse (Sitzungsberichte der Bayerischen Akademie 1937), pp. 22–8.Google Scholar

6 See Persephone and Aphrodite in Beazley, , ARV, 984Google Scholar, second column, and 979, first column; also Rumpf, , Anadyomene, Jb. 1950–1951, 170Google Scholar last paragraph.

7 See Rumpf, op. cit. 172–3.

8 See Ferrara T 579, Beazley, , ARV, 428Google Scholar, 1 above, and New York 28. 57. 23, Beazley, , ARV, 651, 1.Google Scholar

9 See Metzger, op. cit. p. 78.

10 See Buschor, op. cit., p. 17; Rumpf, op. cit. p. 168; Metzger, op. cit. pp. 72 ff. On the bell-krater Berlin F 2646 (Mon. XII, 4; Brommer, , Pan in Marburger Jb. für Kunstwissenschaft, 1949–1950, p. 36, fig. 48)Google Scholar I am also inclined to believe that the goddess rises from the earth, not from the sea as Buschor thinks (op. cit. p. 31 top).

11 See Buschor, op. cit. p. 31, also Brommer, , Satyrspiele, pp. 8, 15–16, and 21.Google Scholar