Decoration: A: ATHENA AND OLD MAN BETWEEN WARRIORS, SHIELD, DEVICE, LION B: DIONYSOS WITH VINE AND DRINKING HORN BETWEEN SATYRS WITH LEOPARD SKINS, ONE WITH DRINKING HORN
Last Recorded Collection: Kansas City (MO), Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art: 30.13
Publication Record: American Journal of Archaeology: 86 (1982) PL.77.1 (A) Beazley, J.D., Attic Red-Figure Vase-Painters, 2nd edition (Oxford, 1963): 249.1 Beazley, J.D., Attic Red-figure Vase-painters, 1st ed. (Oxford, 1942): 164.1 Burn, L. and Glynn, R., Beazley Addenda (Oxford, 1982): 100 Carpenter, T.H., with Mannack, T. and Mendonca, M., Beazley Addenda, 2nd edition (Oxford, 1989): 203 Kressirer, K., Das Greisenalter in der griechischen Antike. Untersuchung der Vasenbilder und Schriftquellen der archaischen und klassischen Zeit (Hamburg, 2016): 841, NO.265 (PART OF A) Moon, W.G. and Berge, L., (eds.), Greek Vase Painting in Midwestern Collections (Chicago, 1979): 156, NO.90 (A,B) Schefold, K., Jung, F., Die Sagen von den Argonauten, von Theben und Troia in der klassischen und hellenistischen Kunst (Munich, 1989): 192, FIG.171 (A)
CAVI Lemma: RF amphora with lid. From Paestum. Syleus Painter. First quarter fifth. Ca.
480 (Berge).
CAVI Subject: A: Adrastus comes to Athens to ask for help against Creon, with Polyneices
and Tydeus of Calydon?(1) B: Dionysus with oschos and drinking horn between two
satyrs, that on the right also holding a drinking horn.
CAVI Inscriptions: A: on one warrior's shield: imitation letters, perhaps: καλος (Berge). B: on
the drinking horns: imitation letters (three on that held by Dionysus). Under
the foot, Grr. (see `Midwestern', p. 157).
CAVI Footnotes: {1} so Berge (see Add.[2]; Berge's interpretation depends on one by Erika
Simon of a similar scene on a vase at Ferrara); Beazley says: unexplained
subject: Athena, two warriors and an old man (see ARV[2] further).
Pinney–Hamilton (1982), 581-84, pl. 77,1 (A), suggest a secret ballot: two
heroes are shown each depositing a leaf in a phiale held by Athena [the open
shape of the phiale seems to me an obstacle to their interpretation]. On p. 582
n. 7 they raise the possibility that the leaves are thought of as inscribed.
