Exékias en ses demeures : l’itinéraire de la « nef du patriarche » des fouilles Bonaparte à Vulci

Exekias in his homes: the itinerary of the “patriarch’s nave” from the Bonaparte excavations in Vulci / In an exercise of social biography of the artwork, the aim is to retrace the ancient and modern itinerary of one of the most famous Attic vases discovered in 1829 during the excavations of the eastern necropolises of Vulci by Alexandrine and Lucien Bonaparte: the cup representing Dionysus on the vinous sea, signed by Exekias and nowadays preserved in Munich, which Napoleon’s brother had strangely given a biblical name, “the ship of the patriarch”. New archival data also make it possible to partially recompose the ceramic assemblage of the funerary context in which the vase was found, the “Grotte Arionse” in the Cannelocchio area, and to reflect on its repair in antiquity.