Decoration: A2: RANSOM OF HEKTOR (?), WOMAN, CART OR CHARIOT AB1: THETIS, NEREIDS ON DOLPHINS OR SEA HORSES WITH ARMS OF ACHILLES (HELMET, GREAVES, SHIELD, DEVICE, GRIFFIN, SPEAR AND SASH) B2: BODY OF PATROKLOS ON KLINE, DRAPED MEN, ONE IN CHLAMYS, PETASOS WITH KERYKEION (NAMED, TALTHYBIOS)
Last Recorded Collection: Vienna, University: 505
Publication Record: Barringer, J.M., Divine Escorts, Nereids in Archaic and Classical Greek Art (Ann Arbor, 1995): PLS.20-21 Beazley, J.D., Attic Red-Figure Vase-Painters, 2nd edition (Oxford, 1963): 1030.33 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: WIEN, UNIVERSITAT UND PROFESSOR FRANZ V. MATSCH, U35-U38, PL.(218) 24.1-14 View Whole CVA Plates Jahrbuch des Deutschen Archäologischen Instituts: 57 (1986/87), 76, FIG.11 Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae: VII, PL.434, PSAMATHE 2 Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae: VII, PL.584, TALTHYBIOS 5 (PART) Matheson, S.B., Polygnotos and Vase Painting in Classical Athens (Madison, 1995): 79, PLS.62A-D (A, DRAWING OF A) Schmidt, S. and Steinhart, M. (eds.), Sammeln und Erforschen, Griechische Vasen in neuzeitlichen Sammlungen, Beihefte zum Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum, Band VI (Munich, 2014): 141, FIG.8 (DRAWING OF A AND B)
CAVI Lemma: Frs. of RF calyx krater. From Vulci. Polygnotos. Third quarter fifth. Late
(Matheson).
CAVI Subject: Upper row: A-B: Nereids riding sea animals with the armor of Achilles. Lower
row: A: Ransom of Hector. B: Achilles mourning for Patroclus.
CAVI Inscriptions: Upper row: near one Nereid: καλε. By a Nereid and the snout of a horse:
Θε[τις]. Below it: Κυ[μ --]{1}. Near another Nereid and a dolphin:
Nα[υ]σι[--](?){2}. Near a Nereid who holds a dolphin: [Ψ]αμαθε{3}. Below it:
καλε. B: the last figure on the right (Beazley): Θ[α]λθυβιος.
CAVI Footnotes: {1} Kymatolege, Kymo, Kymodoke, and Kymothoe are mentioned in CVA. {2} CVA's
suggestion. {3} the psi is supplied in CVA. Matheson reads: Ψαμαθε καλε.
CAVI Comments: 14 frs. Two-row. The third play of Aeschylus' Achilleis was Nereids. In the
Iliad, Talthybios is connected only with the abduction of Briseis.
CAVI Number: 7978
AVI Bibliography: Kenner (1941), 1-24. — H. Kenner, CVA Vienna, Universität & Matsch, Germany 5
(1942), III I, pl. 24,1-14. — ARV[2] (1963), 1030/33. — Para. (1971), 442. —
LIMC i (1981), 117, Achilles 480; 125, Achilles 524. — Add.[2] (1989), 317. —
LIMC vi (1992), 809, Nereids 328. — Barringer (1995), app. no. 19, pls. 20-21. —
Matheson (1995), 78f., 250-52, 354/P 38, pl. 62A-D.
CAVI / AVI Data from Henry Immerwahr's Corpus of Attic Vase Inscriptions (CAVI), updated by Rudoph Wachter's Attic Vase Inscriptions (AVI)
