Decoration: I: WARRIOR, SHIELD DEVICE, CRESCENT AND CIRCLES
Last Recorded Collection: Athens, National Museum, Acropolis Collection: A73
Previous Collections:
Athens, National Museum, Acropolis Collection: 2.79
Publication Record: Graef, B. and Langlotz, E., Die antiken Vasen von der Akropolis zu Athen 2 (Berlin, 1933): PL.5.79 PHOTOGRAPH(S) IN THE BEAZLEY ARCHIVE: 1 (I)
CAVI Lemma: Fr. of RF cup. From Athens. Unattributed. Late sixth or early fifth.
CAVI Subject: Int.: young warrior to left, but turning back.
CAVI Inscriptions: From back of head, along margin: [---]κρα[---], retr.?{1}.
CAVI Footnotes: {1} alpha and rho reversed (not retr.); but the inscription may also be read
: [---]αρκ[---], with kappa reversed.
CAVI Comments: This should be a kalos-name or a signature; the position argues perhaps
against its giving the warrior's name. Graef–Langlotz suggests the painter
[hερμο]κρα[τες], cf. Acr. 5. The only similar kalos-name is the doubtful
hερμο[---] of Acr. ii, 223; see ARV[2] 1583 and my discussion of that vase. But
other kalos-names are availible: hιπποκρατες (6th, 1583), Κρατες (late 6th and
early 5th, 1590), Σοκρατες (Berlin Painter, 1609), Τιμοκρατες (Late archaic,
1610). I take it that the inscription is not meaningless despite the reversal of
letters. Beazley, perhaps wisely, does not list it. For the failure to reverse
letters in retrograde, see AttScr (1990), no. 721, Fig. 118.
CAVI Number: 1244
AVI Bibliography: Photo. — Graef–Langlotz (1925–33), ii, no. 79, pl. 5.
CAVI / AVI Data from Henry Immerwahr's Corpus of Attic Vase Inscriptions (CAVI), updated by Rudoph Wachter's Attic Vase Inscriptions (AVI)
