Decoration: A: DEATH OF LAIOS, OEDIPUS (?), MAN IN ANIMAL SKIN WITH KENTRON (NAMED), CHARIOT, WOMAN (NAMED)
Last Recorded Collection: Adria, Museo Archeologico Nazionale: BC104
Previous Collections:
Adria, Museo Archeologico Nazionale: 22273
Publication Record: Baldasarra, D., Dal Saronico all'Adriatico. Iscrizioni greche su ceramica del Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Adria (Pisa, 2013): 99-101, FR91 Beazley, J.D., Attic Red-Figure Vase-Painters, 2nd edition (Oxford, 1963): 1029.19, 1678-9 Beazley, J.D., Paralipomena (Oxford, 1971): 442 Burn, L. and Glynn, R., Beazley Addenda (Oxford, 1982): 155 Carpenter, T.H., with Mannack, T. and Mendonca, M., Beazley Addenda, 2nd edition (Oxford, 1989): 317 Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum: ADRIA, MUSEO CIVICO 1, III.I.50, PL.(1290) 42.1 View Whole CVA Plates Crouwel, J.H., Chariots and other Wheeled Vehicles in Iron Age Greece, Allard Pierson Series 9 (Amsterdam, 1992): PL.29.1 (DRAWING OF PART OF A) De Marinis, R. (ed.), Gli Etruschi a nord del Po II (Mantua, 1988): 79, FIG.236 (COLOUR) Matheson, S.B., Polygnotos and Vase Painting in Classical Athens (Madison, 1995): 60, PL.45 Robertson, C.M., The art of vase-painting in classical Athens (Cambridge, 1992): 212, FIG.222 Wiel-Marin, F., La ceramica attica a figure rosse di Adria, La famiglia Bocchi e l'archeologia (Padova, 2005): 129-139, NO.226
CAVI Lemma: Fr. of RF bell krater. From Adria. Polygnotos. Third quarter fifth.
CAVI Subject: A: Death of Laios: at left, just below the top rim: club of a missing figure
(Oedipus); part of a male figure (Sikon) with raised club; chariot horses; upper
part of a female with raised right arm (Kalliopa).
CAVI Inscriptions: A: near Oedipus' club: [Ο]ιδιποδες{1}. By the left-hand male: Σικον. The
woman: Καλλιοπα.
CAVI Footnotes: {1} so M., p. 262; [Ο]ιδιποδης p. 350 (cat.).
CAVI Comments: Alphabet Ionic. - The phot. in CVA shows the first inscription. Sikon's club
is his goad with which he hit Oedipus. Beazley (ARV[2] 1678) considered Kalliopa
a muse representing all muses; C. Robert (1915), ii, 315 a single muse in
company of others. Perhaps a figure in Laius' retinue (CVA). But according to
Robertson, Kalliope marks the locale as Parnassus where the Muses walk. Webster
(1972) connects the scene with the Laius of Aeschylus; but the vase is about
20-25 years later than the play (467 B.C.). M. suggests Sophocles' OT.
CAVI Number: 0069
AVI Bibliography: G. Riccioni, CVA Adria 1, Italy 28 (1957), pl. 42,1. — ARV[2] (1963),
1029/19, *1678. — Para. (1971), 442. — Add.[2] (1989), 317 (bibl.). — AttScr
(1990), no. 764. — LIMC vi (1992), 186, Laios 3. — Robertson (1992), 210-11 and
fig. 222. — Matheson (1995), 60, 257-58, *262, 350/P21, pl. 45.
CAVI / AVI Data from Henry Immerwahr's Corpus of Attic Vase Inscriptions (CAVI), updated by Rudoph Wachter's Attic Vase Inscriptions (AVI)
