Chigi vase

Chigi vase
	Pittore chigi, olpe chigi (corinto), formello, tumulo di monte aguzzo, 640 ac ca. 01.jpg
Material	Clay
Height	26 cm
Created	c. 645 BC
Present location	Rome, Lazio, Italy

The Chigi vase is a Proto-Corinthian olpe (pitcher). It is the name vase of the Chigi Painter.^[1] It was found in an Etruscan tomb. This tomb was at Monte Aguzzo, near Veio. It was found in 1881.^[2] The vase was probably made from c. 650–640 BC.^[3] The vase is now in the National Etruscan Museum, Villa Giulia, Rome (inv. No.22679).

The vase is 26 cm (10.2 inches) tall. This is small, compared to other Greek vases.^[4] About 3/4 of the vase was not destroyed. The vase was found with many other potsherds. There was also a bucchero found next to it. It had writings in 2 early Etruscan alphabets. The writings talked about the ownership of Atianai.^[5]

Chigi Vase Media

Chigi Painter - CVPAP 32 A 3 - battle of phalanxes - chariots and riders - judgement of Paris - hunting scenes - Roma MNEVG 22679 - 29
Detail of the Chigi Vase depicting hoplites in action (National Etruscan Museum, Rome)
Judgement of Paris scene

References

↑ Amyx 1988, 31–33, and Benson, Earlier Corinthian Workshops, 1989, 56–58, call the artist the Chigi Painter. However, Dunbabin and Robertson, "Some Protocorinthian Vase Painters", Annual of the British School at Athens, 48, 1953, 179–180 favour the appellation "Macmillan Painter".
↑ Ghirardini 1882, p. 292.
↑ Hurwitt, p. 3, note 12, lists the competing views on the date.
↑ Hurwit, Jeffrey M. (2002). "Reading the Chigi Vase". Hesperia: The Journal of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens. 71 (1): 1–22. doi:10.2307/3182058. JSTOR 3182058.
↑ Hurwitt, 2002, p. 6.

Sources

D. A. Amyx, Corinthian Vase Painting of the Archaic Period, 1988.
Jeffrey M. Hurwit, "Reading the Chigi Vase", Hesperia, Vol. 71, No. 1 (Jan. – Mar., 2002), pp. 1–22.
John Salmon, "Political Hoplites?", The Journal of Hellenic Studies, Vol. 97, (1977), pp. 84–101.

Other websites

Hoplite scene on the Chigi vase

[1] Amyx 1988, 31–33, and Benson, Earlier Corinthian Workshops, 1989, 56–58, call the artist the Chigi Painter. However, Dunbabin and Robertson, "Some Protocorinthian Vase Painters", Annual of the British School at Athens, 48, 1953, 179–180 favour the appellation "Macmillan Painter".

[2] Ghirardini 1882, p. 292.

[3] Hurwitt, p. 3, note 12, lists the competing views on the date.

[4] Hurwit, Jeffrey M. (2002). "Reading the Chigi Vase". Hesperia: The Journal of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens. 71 (1): 1–22. doi:10.2307/3182058. JSTOR 3182058.

[5] Hurwitt, 2002, p. 6.

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