The basic materials for this research initially have been collected by Mrs. A. Hondius-Crone; her collection has been revised after subsequent investigations.
S : shieldstrip
C : pottery
F : fragment(s) only
R : sculpture
* : "red-figure pottery"
[...] : these numbers correspond with the numbers in the article on Athena in the
Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae (LIMC).
(D) : click here for a DESCRIPTION of the representation
ON SHIELDSTRIPS
1. (D) S01 Delphi, Archeological Museum
Bronze embossed shieldband
2. (D) S02 [362] Olympia, Archeological Museum
Bronze embossed shieldband
3. (D) S03 Olympia, Archeological Museum
Bronze embossed shieldband
4. (D) S04 [361] Olympia, Archeological Museum
Bronze embossed shieldband
ON POTTERY
5. (D) C01 [352] Munich, Museum antiker Kleinkunst
1382; Black-figure amphora from
Vulci (Group E)
6. (D) C02 Boston, Museum of Fine Arts, 00.330;
Black-figure amphora from Vulci,
(Group E)
7. (D) C03 Vienna, Kunsthistorisches Museum 3596
(Group E)
8. (D) C04 [368] Würzburg, University, Martin von Wagner Mus. L 250;
black-figure amphora from Vulci (Group E)
9. (D) C05 Philadelphia, University Museum, MS 3441;
black-figure amphora
10. (D) C06 Berlin, Staatliche Museen, 1699;
black-figure amphora from Vulci
(Group E)
11. (D) C07 [367] Philadelphia, University Museum, MS 3440;
black-figure amphora
12. (D) C08 [349] London, British Museum, B 147;
black-figure amphora from Vulci (Group E)
13. (D) C09 Nostell Priory, Yorkshire;
black-figure amphora
(Group E)
14. (D) C10 Tarquinia, Museo Civico, 626;
black-figure amphora
15. (D) C11 Orvieto, Museo Civico, 299;
black-figure amphora from orvieto
(Group E)
16. (D) C12 Naples, Museo Nazionale (number?);
black-figure amphora from Capua
17. (D) C13 [365] Geneva, Musée d'Art et d'Histoire,
MF 154; black-figure amphora
Princeton Group
Reverse:(D)C13A [350] id.
18. (D) C14 [351] Richmond, The Virginia Mus. of Fine
Arts, 60-23; black-figure amphora
(Group E)
19. (D) C15 Paris, Musée du Louvre, F 32
Group E)
20. (D) C16 Oldenburg, Stadtmuseum
black-figure amphora
21. (D) C17 [355] Copenhagen, Nationalmuseum, VIII 375;
black-figure lekythos from Vulci
22. (D) C18 Paris, Musée du Louvre, CA 616;
black-figure tripod kothon from Thebes
[Exaleiptron attique f.n. de Thèbe]
23. (D) C19 [348] Paris, Musée du Louvre, E 861;
black-figure amphora
24. (D) C20 [346] Berlin, Staatliche Museen, F 1704;
black-figure amphora from Cerveteri
25. (D) C21 [353] Bazel, Antikenmuseum;
black-figure amphora
Group E
26. (D) C22 London, British Museum, B 244;
black-figure amphora from Vulci
Antimenes Painter)
27. (D) C23 London, British Museum, B 218;
black-figure amphora from Vulci
Manner of the Antimenes Painter
28. (D) C24 Rome, Palazzo dei Conservatori;
black-figure hydria from Cerveteri
29. (D) C25 New London, Connecticut, Museum, 1935.4.172;
black-figure amphora
30. (D) C26 [369] New York, Metropolitain Museum, 06.1097;
black-figure kylix
Painter of Louvre F28
Reverse: (D)C26A
31. (D) C27 [347] London, British Museum, B 424;
black-figure Little-Master cup from Vulci
(Phrynos Potter and Painter)
32. (D) C28 Athens, Ceramikus Museum;
black-figure tripod pyxis
33. (D) C29 Orvieto, Duomo 333;
black-figure amphora
34.* (D) C30 [356] London, British Museum, E 15;
red-figure kylix from Tarquinia
Poseidon Painter
35.* (D) C31 [358] Londen, British Museum, E 410;
red-figure pelike from Vulci
Painter of the birth of Athena
36.* (D) C32 [370] Vienna, Kunsthist. Mus. 728;
red-figure pelike
37.* (D) C33 [357] Parijs, Cabinet des Médailles, 444:
red-figure amphora
Fragments
38. (D) F01 Berlin, 1709 (lost)
39. (D) and (D) F02
Bonn 2205, University, Akademisches Kunstmuseum 2205;
two sherds of a black-figure amphora
Group E
40. (D) F03 [354] Cambridge Mass., Harvard University, Fogg Museum, 1960-326;
sherd of a black-figure amphora
Group E
41. (D) F04 [366] Reggio (Calabria), Mus. Nazionale 4018;
sherd of a black-figure amphora from Locri(?)
42. (D) F05 [343] Athens, Acropolis Museum, M 2578;
sherd of a Corinthian pinax
43. (D) F06 Athens, Agora, fragment no F 26650;
black-figure sherd
44.* (D) F07 Reggio (Calabria), 10554 & 10558,
red-figure sherds
45. (D) F09 Several other b.f. and r.f. fragments
Other objects:
There have been four other objects, representing the birth of Athena, which are only known from literature:
-- R [364] in Sparta: (viz. Pausanias III.17.3)
-- a painted picture in Olympia: (viz. Strabo VIII.34.6)
-- R [363] in Athens: (viz. Pausanias I.24.2)
-- a painted representation: (viz. Philostratus Maior, Im. 227)
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