id: 146147 accession number: 1971.46 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1971.46 updated: 2022-05-14 09:01:26.991000 Black-Figure Dinos (Mixing Vessel): Warships (Int.); Heroic Scenes (Top), c. 520–515 BC. Circle of Antimenes Painter (Greek, Attic, active c. 530-510 BC). Ceramic; diameter: 50.8 cm (20 in.); overall: 33.6 cm (13 1/4 in.); diameter of rim: 34 cm (13 3/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, John L. Severance Fund 1971.46 title: Black-Figure Dinos (Mixing Vessel): Warships (Int.); Heroic Scenes (Top) title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: c. 520–515 BC creation date earliest: -520 creation date latest: -515 current location: 102B Greek creditline: John L. Severance Fund copyright: --- culture: Greek, Attic technique: ceramic department: Greek and Roman Art collection: GR - Greek type: Ceramic find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS * Antimenes Painter (Greek, Attic, active c. 530-510 BC) - artist --- measurements: Diameter: 50.8 cm (20 in.); Overall: 33.6 cm (13 1/4 in.); Diameter of rim: 34 cm (13 3/8 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: Year in Review: 1971 opening date: 1971-12-28T05:00:00 Year in Review: 1971. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (December 28, 1971-February 6, 1972). title: Poseidon and the Sea: Myth, Cult, and Daily Life opening date: 2014-02-08T00:00:00 Poseidon and the Sea: Myth, Cult, and Daily Life. Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, NE (February 8-May 11, 2014); Tampa Museum of Art, Tampa, FL (organizer) (June 14-November 30, 2014). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS * The World of Ceramics: Masterpieces from the Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland Museum of Art, (30 June-5 September 1982). --- PROVENANCE The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH date: 1971- footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: Unable to stand on its own, this round-bottomed vessel probably once had a separately made base. digital description: Designed for use at a symposium, or drinking party, this large dinos has a wide mouth allowing easy access to its contents—wine mixed with water (and sometimes other ingredients for flavoring). While drinking, symposiasts would often recite poetry and celebrate the mythological exploits of gods and heroes, perhaps prompted by the images painted on their pottery. Here, the vase-painter clearly anticipated such use; when the vessel was full, the ships painted on the inside of the rim would appear to sail across the “wine-dark sea” (to borrow a phrase found frequently in Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey). Other heroic scenes, including Herakles wrestling the Nemean lion and Theseus battling the Minotaur, appear on top of the rim, interspersed with chariots and anonymous combats. wall description: A wealthy, educated man would have served wine from such a vessel at an all-male party (symposium) in his home. In addition to drinking, the men would recite poetry and argue politics or philosophy. A favorite poet was Homer, who lived about 850 BC, and is credited with having written the Iliad, the epic poem of the Trojan War, and the Odyssey, the book of Ulysses (Odysseus in Greek) travels after the war. When the dinos was filled to the rim, the ships painted on the inside appeared to float on the "wine-dark sea," one of Homer's most famous poetic descriptions. The decorations on the rim of this vessel include battle scenes, perhaps from the Trojan War, and scenes from mythology. Look at the rim as if it were a clock's face. In addition to the nine scenes of warrior combat, at 4:00 there is a scene of Herakles Fighting a Centaur; at 6:00, Theseus Slaying the Cretan Minotaur; and at 10:00, Herakles Wrestling the Nemean Lion. On the interior rim five warships with boar-head prows sail over a wavy sea. --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Beazley Archive. n.d. Beazley Archive Pottery Database. Oxford: Beazley Archive. page number: BAPD 5166 url: http://www.beazley.ox.ac.uk/record/C91A736F-1559-4362-B665-A861EB2165C6 Lee, Sherman E. "The Year in Review for 1971." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 59, no. 1 (1972). page number: p. 40, No. 1 url: https://www.jstor.org/stable/25152412 Hoffmann, Herbert, and Marion True. Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum. Boston: Museum of Fine Arts, 1973. page number: p. 9, no. 13 url: Moon, Warren G. and Louise Berge. Greek Vase-Painting in Midwestern Collections. Chicago: The Art Institute of Chicago, 1979. page number: Reproduced & mentioned: pp. 110-111, cat. 63 url: https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.04.0045%3Aentry%3D63 Kathman, Barbara. "A Trio of Late Black-Figure Vase Painters." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 66, no. 2 (1979): 50-66. page number: pp. 54-57, figs. 8, 9, 11. url: www.jstor.org/stable/25159617 Lexicon iconographicum mythologiae classicae (LIMC). Zürich: Artemis, 1981. page number: V, PL. 34, HERAKLES 1782 url: Cleveland Museum of Art, and Jenifer Neils. The World of Ceramics: Masterpieces from the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland: The Museum in cooperation with Indiana University Press, 1982. page number: Mentioned and reproduced: p. 11, fig. 13 url: Burow, Johannes, and Antimenes Painter. Der Antimenesmaler. Mainz/Rhein: P. von Zabern, 1989. page number: p. 26 n. 144 url: The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1991. page number: Reproduced: p. 9 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1991/page/n24 Brownlee, Ann. "Antimenean Dinoi," in Oakley, John Howard, William D. E. Coulson, and Olga Palagia (eds.). Athenian potters and painters: the conference proceedings (Oxford: Oxbow Books, 1997): 509-522. page number: Esp. pp. 513-517, figs. 6-8. url: Stansbury-O'Donnell, Mark. Pictorial Narrative in Ancient Greek Art. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999. page number: pp. 129-32, fig. 54 url: Boulter, C. G., Jenifer Neils, and Gisela Walberg. Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2000. page number: pp. 27-29, pl. 63-65 url: Pevnick, Seth D., Robert I. Curtis, Nancy Thomson De Grummond, Angeliki Kokkinou, Jeffrey Maish, William Michael Murray, and Erika Simon. Poseidon and the Sea: Myth, Cult, and Daily Life. 2014. page number: pp. 81,159, cat. no. 92 url: --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1971.46/1971.46_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1971.46/1971.46_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1971.46/1971.46_full.tif