Bowl fragment. Max. dim. 0.035. LIMC IV, 1988, p. 232, no. 337, s.v. Gigantes.

A, Hephaistos(?): in the Gigantomachy(?). The fragment preserves the face of a man with a very long beard, to right, with a cloak over his outstretched left arm. Below his beard, flames of the molten metal. Preliminary sketch. Relief contour. Dilute glaze: two lines on cheek. Red: flames.

Beazley (ARV2 461, 24) suggested that the subject might be Zeus in the Gigantomachy, presumably because the added red looks like the flames of his thunderbolt. But the two thunderbolts I have been able to find in the work of Makron do not have flames: London, B.M. E 140 (ARV2 459, 3; Paralip. 377, 3; Addenda 243). From the late 6th century on, Hephaistos fights with lumps of molten metal held in his tongs, and these lumps usually have flames. A good example, contemporary with 1424, is Hephaistos in the big Gigantomachy on Berlin 2293 by the Brygos Painter (ARV2 370, 10; Paralip. 365, 10 and 367, 10; Addenda 224). For Zeus holding a flaming thunderbolt, see the representation of him on Cab. Méd. 385 by the Kleophrades Painter (ARV2 186, 50; Addenda 188). Here, the subject is not the Gigantomachy but Psychostasia.

Makron (ARV2 461, 24).