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Death of Hipparchos

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 December 2013

J. D. Beazley
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Among the sherds found at Gela in what must have been the sanctuary of the hero Antiphamos—the Rhodian co-founder, with the Cretan Entimos, of the city itself—was a fragment of a large Attic skyphos representing the Assassination of Hipparchos. It was described, though not figured, by Orsi in Notizie degli Scavi 1900 p. 276. He compared it with the well-known picture of the same subject on the stamnos by the Copenhagen Painter in Würzburg (515: AZ. 1883 pl. 12 and pp. 215–8, Boehlau; Klio 20 pll. 1–4; Langlotz pll. 182–3 and 210: ARV. p. 193 no. 5). Petersen noticed the fragment in R.M. 16 (1901) p. 103, and there are one or two bare mentions elsewhere. In 1923 it was still in private hands at Gela, where I saw it, but not long afterwards it passed to the Villa Giulia, and was figured, with a hasty description, by Cultrera in Bollettino d'Arte 7 (1927) p. 319, above, 2. This publication seems to have escaped general notice, at least it is not quoted in recent studies of the Tyrant-slayers. The fragment has such exceptional interest of subject that I may be excused for returning to it.

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Research Article
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The Journal of Hellenic Studies , Volume 68 , November 1948 , pp. 26 - 28
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Copyright © The Society for the Promotion of Hellenic Studies 1948

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References

1 RM. XIX (1904), 166 (Hauser, )Google Scholar; Klio XX, 167 (Hirsch, Marga)Google Scholar; AJA. XXXII (1928), 3 n. 7 (Richter, )Google Scholar; Langlotz, Gr. Vasen in Würzburg 103Google Scholar.

2 It is not, I suppose, absolutely certain that the Pan Painter's figure is Harmodios, rather than a youth in the same attitude as Harmodios, but it is extremely probable. The skyphos must have been a small ‘glaux’, like the complete skyphoi by the Pan Painter in Wisbech, Berlin, and New York (ARV. p. 367 nos. 82–4), and cannot have had more than one figure on each side: Aristogeiton, therefore, must have been by himself on the other side of the vase.

3 Petersen had already argued for the leftward direction (AUM. 3 p. 82), but placed Aristogeiton in front.

4 Described as a woman by Cultrera, who does not refer to the earlier account by Orsi.

5 On the problem, Hirsch, Marga in Klio XX, 131–67Google Scholar.

6 Oest. Mus. 264: AEM. 3 pl. 6 and p. 76 (Petersen), whence AJA. XXII (1918), 150; Masner p. 32 fig. 19; Haspels ABL. pl. 48, 5, with p. 167 and p. 264 no. 39, dated c. 470 B.C.