Perseus Art and Archaeology Browser

ID:

aa_5596

Beazley Number:

205092

Type:

Vase

Date:

ca. -480

Period:

Late Archaic/Early Classical

Context:

From Caere

Region:

Etruria

Painter:

Signed by Douris

Condition:

The vase is in good condition. There are some dark marks on the surface.

Dimensions:

H. 11.5 m., d. 28.5 m.

Ware:

Attic Red Figure

Shape:

Cup

Shape Description

For the shape see Bloesch 98, Python no. 14.

Decoration Description

Interior: youth taking off his sandals. A naked youth bends to untie his sandal, his right foot propped on a stool. His left foot is still shod. The youth's knotty staff rests on the louterion behind him, and his mantle is draped over the stool. A sponge and aryballos hang above the stool.

Sides A and B: school. On each side are two pairs of teachers and students, and on the right a seated man who sits watching. Side A: The pair on the left practice the lyre. They sit on cushioned stools facing each other, the bearded teacher on the left, the student on the right. Both hold their lyres on their laps and are playing, their fingers spread across the strings. They wear their mantles pushed down around their waists to leave their upper bodies free. The teacher in the second pair sits on a cushioned chair facing right, his pupil standing before him with his mantle wrapped around him. The bearded teacher holds up a partly opened scroll on which something is written. His mantle is pushed down to free his arms and shoulders. A third bearded man sits on the right facing foward, his legs crossed at the ankles and his head turned to watch the school activities. He holds a staff in his right hand, and wears his mantle in the usual manner, covering one shoulder. Two lyres, two kylikes, a basket and a flute-case hang on the wall. There is an inscription along the upper edge of the scene.Side B: The two teachers on this side are young and beardless. The teacher on the left, seated on an uncushioned stool, plays a flute, his mantle pushed down to his waist. His young pupil stands facing him, wrapped in his mantle. The teacher in the center, who is seated on a cushioned stool facing right, holds a writing tablet on his lap, his stylus held in his raised right hand. His student also stands facing him, wrapped in his mantle. A bearded man sits on a cushioned stool on the right, facing right, but with his upper body and head turned toward the others. He holds a staff in one hand. A scroll, a writing tablet, a lyre, a cross-shaped object, and a sack hang on the wall. There is an inscription along the upper edge of the scene. All the figures on side A and side B wear red fillets.

Graffiti

Written in red in the interior on the left side of the tondo is the inscription: *D*O*R*I*S *E*G*R*A*F*S*E*N, Douris painted it (or me). On side A: *I*P*O*D*A*M*A*S *K*A*L*O*S, Hippodamas is beautiful. The box held by the central teacher on side A carries the inscription, in four lines: *M*O*I*S*A *M*O*I / *A*F*I *S*K*A*M*A*N*D*R*O*N / *E*U*R*W*N *A*R*X*O*M*A*I / *A*E*I*N*D*E*N, "Muse to me...I begin to sing of wide-flowing Scamander". The line has been associated with Stesichorus (J.D. Beazley, "Hymn to Hermes", AJA 52 (1948) 338). On side B: *I*P*O*D*A*M*A*S [*K*A]*L*O*S, Hippodamas is beautiful.

Notes

Malibu 86.AE.290, another school scene by Douris.

Collection:

Berlin, Antikenmuseen

Citations and Bibliography

ARV2, 431.48, 1653; Beazley Addenda 2, 237

CVA, Germany 21, Berlin 2: pl. 77.1-2, 78.1-4, 127.1,5

Mon. 9 pl. 54; WV. 6 pl. 6; Perrot & Chipiez, 10, 551; FR, iii, 87; Hoppin 1919, i, 214-215; AZ 1873 pl. 1; FR, pl. 136; Bieber 1939, 3; Pfuhl 1923, fig. 468 (=Pfuhl Mast. fig. 65); Neugebauer pl. 52; Buschor 1940, 176; Birt Buchrolle 138; Schubart Buch2 153 and 156; Kirchner pl. 11, 21; Zadoks-Jitta [...]