Decoration: A: THEATRICAL (?), OLD SATYRS WITH LYRES, ONE INFIBULATED, YOUTH IN PATTERNED COSTUME WITH PIPES, INSCRIPTION B: DRAPED YOUTHS, ONE LEANING ON STAFF
Last Recorded Collection: New York (N.Y.), Metropolitan Museum: 25.78.66
Publication Record: Anderson, W.D., Music and Musicians in Ancient Greece (Ithaca, 1994): PL.3 (A) Annali del Seminario di Studi del Mondo Classico: 15 (1993) PL.22.1 (A) Beazley, J.D., Attic Red-Figure Vase-Painters, 2nd edition (Oxford, 1963): 1172.8, 1685 Beazley, J.D., Paralipomena (Oxford, 1971): 459 Beihefte zum Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum Deutschland: IV (2009) 12, FIG.8 (A) Bundrick, S.D., Music and Image in Classical Athens (Cambridge, 2005): 30, FIG.17 (A) Burn, L. and Glynn, R., Beazley Addenda (Oxford, 1982): 166 Carpenter, T.H., with Mannack, T. and Mendonca, M., Beazley Addenda, 2nd edition (Oxford, 1989): 339 Carrese, M. et al. (eds.), La musica in Etruria, Atti del convegno internazionale, Tarquinia, 18-20 settembre 2009 (Tarquinia, 2010): 87, FIG.2 (PART OF A) Hedreen, G.M., Silens in Attic Black-figure Vase-painting (Michigan, 1992): PL.31 (A) Hyperboreus: 20 (2014) FIG.2 (A) Kressirer, K., Das Greisenalter in der griechischen Antike. Untersuchung der Vasenbilder und Schriftquellen der archaischen und klassischen Zeit (Hamburg, 2016): 857, NOS.582-584 (A) Krumeich, R., Pechstein, N., and Seidensticker, B. (eds.), Das griechische Satyrspiel (Darmstadt, 1999): PL.15B (A) Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae: VIII, PL.761, SILENOI 97 (A) Lissarrague, F., La cite des satyres. Une anthropologie ludique (Athenes, VIe-Ve siecle avant J.-C.) (Paris, 2013): 159, FIG.132 (DRAWING OF A) Maas, M. and Snyder, J.M, Stringed Instruments of Ancient Greece (New Haven, 1989): 162, FIG.13 (A) Matheson, S.B. and Pollitt, J.J., Old Age in Greek and Roman Art (Yale, 2022): 187, FIG.104 (COLOUR OF A) Neils, J., The Parthenon Frieze (Cambridge, 2001): 212, FIG.148 (A) Oakley, J.H., A Guide to Scenes of Daily Life on Athenian Vases (Madison, 2020): PL.21 (COLOUR OF A) Phoenix, Classical Association of Canada: 66.3/4 (2012) PL.1 (A) Small, J.P., The Parallel Worlds of Classical Art and Text (Cambridge, 2003): 76, FIG.40 (A) Taplin, O. and Wyles, R. (eds.), The Pronomos Vase and its Context (Oxford, 2010): 226, FIG.12.6 (A) West, M.L., Ancient Greek Music (Oxford, 1992): PL.16 (A) Yatromanolakis, D. (ed.), Epigraphy of Art II, Inscriptions and Representations on Athenian Vases (Athens, 2024): 245, FIG.1, 248, FIG.2, 252, FIG.4 (COLOUR OF A AND PARTS OF A)
CAVI Lemma: RF BELL KRATER. POLION. LAST QUARTER FIFTH. CA. 420.
CAVI Subject: A: OLD SATYRS PLAYING THE LYRE, AND A FLUTE PLAYER (SINGERS AT THE
PANATHENAIA). B: THREE YOUTHS.
CAVI Inscriptions: A: HORIZONTALLY BELOW THE TOP MARGIN, IN LARGE LETTERS: Οιδοι V. Παναθεναια.
CAVI Comments: RICHTER REJECTS A SATYR PLAY AS A SOURCE, SINCE THEY WERE NOT PERFORMED AT
THE PANATHENAIA; PERHAPS A DITHYRAMB OR, LESS LIKELY, A υπορχημα (SEE
RICHTER–HALL (1936), I, 196, N. 3).
CAVI Number: 5638
AVI Bibliography: RICHTER–HALL (1936), I, 195/155, PLS. 155 AND 171 (BIBL.). — ARV[2] (1963),
1172/8, 1685. — PARA. (1971), 459. — ADD.[2] (1989), 339. — ATTSCR (1990), NO.
776. — LISSARRAGUE (1990C), 230, PL. 8, NN. 11-12.
CAVI / AVI Data from Henry Immerwahr's Corpus of Attic Vase Inscriptions (CAVI), updated by Rudoph Wachter's Attic Vase Inscriptions (AVI)
