Decoration: A: DEATH OF AGAMEMNON, IN NET, AIGISTHOS WITH SWORD, WOMEN, ONE WITH DOUBLE AXE (KLYTAIMESTRA), ALL IN BUILDING (DORIC ENTABLATURE WITH IONIC COLUMN) B: DEATH OF AIGISTHOS, DRAPED, SEATED ON CHAIR WITH LYRE, ORESTES (WARRIOR), WOMEN, ONE WITH DOUBLE AXE (KLYTAIMESTRA), ALL IN BUILDING (DORIC ENTABLATURE)
Last Recorded Collection: Boston (MA), Museum of Fine Arts: 63.1246
Previous Collections:
Philadelphia (PA), market
Publication Record: Ahlberg-Cornell, G., Myth and Epos in Early Greek Art, Representation and Interpretation (Jonsered, 1992): 337, 340, FIGS.142, 247 (PART OF A, B) Albersmeier, S. (ed.), Heroes, Mortals and Myths in ancient Greece (Baltimore, 2009): 164, FIG.94A-B (A, B) Arethusa: 18, (1985) 119, FIG.2 (A) Balme, M. and Lawall, G., Athenaze. An Introduction to Ancient Greek. Third Edition (Oxford, 2016): 61, UNNUMBERED (B) Beazley, J.D., Attic Red-Figure Vase-Painters, 2nd edition (Oxford, 1963): 1652 Beazley, J.D., Paralipomena (Oxford, 1971): 373 Beihefte zum Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum Deutschland: IV (2009) 28, FIG.3 (A) Belloni, L., Bonandini, A., Ierano, G., and Moretti, G. (eds.), Le Immagini nel Testo, il Testo nelle Immagini, Rapporti fra parola e visualita nella tradizione greco-latina (Trento, 2010): 139-140 (A) Bundrick, S.D., Music and Image in Classical Athens (Cambridge, 2005): 25, FIG.13 (B) Carpenter, T.H., Art and Myth in Ancient Greece (London, 1991): FIG.351 (A) Carpenter, T.H., with Mannack, T. and Mendonca, M., Beazley Addenda, 2nd edition (Oxford, 1989): 235 Cavalier, O. (ed.), Silence et Fureur, La femme et le marriage en Grece, Les antiquites grecques du Musee Calvet (Avignon, ca.1997): 272-273,279,294, FIGS.101-103,106 (COLOUR OF A, DRAWINGS OF A&B) Clark, M., Exploring Greek Myth (Malden, Oxford, and Chichester, 2012): 142, FIG.11.1 (A) Cohen, A. and Rutter, J.B. (eds.), Constructions of childhood in ancient Greece and Italy, Hesperia Supplement 41 (Princeton, 2007): 92, FIG.4.3 (AH) Cohen, B. (ed.), Not the Classical Ideal, Athens and the Construction of the Other in Greek Art (Leiden, Boston and Köln, 2000): 93, FIG.3.9 (B) Csapo, E. and Slater, W.J., The Context of Ancient Drama (Ann Arbor, 1995): PLS.2A-B (A, B) Frank, S., Attische Kelchkratere, eine Untersuchung zum Zusammenspiel von Gefässform und Bemalung (Frankfurt, 1990): PL.17 (A,B,SIDES) Frasca, R. (ed.), La multimedialita della comunicazione educativa in Grecia e a Roma, Scenario, Percorsi (Bari, 1996): 88, FIGS.1-2 (A, B) Geroulanos, S. and Bridler, R., Trauma, Wund-Entstehung und Wund-Pflege im antiken Griechenland (Mainz, 1994): FIGS.28, 30 (A, B) Grmek, M. and Gourevitch, D., Les maladies dans l'art antique (1998): 85, FIG.49 (PART OF A) Kader, I. (ed.), Penelope rekonstruiert, Geschichte und Deutung einer Frauenfigur, Sonderausstellung des Museums für Abgüsse Klassischer Bildwerke München 9. Oktober bis 15. Januar 2007 (Munich, 2007): 105, FIG.4.8 (A) Knoepfler, D., Les Imagiers de l'Orestie, Mille ans d'art antique autour d'un mythe grec (Zurich, 1993): 54, FIGS.35-36, PL.7 (COLOUR OF A, AH) Koloski-Ostrow, A.O., and Lyons, C.L., Naked Truths, Women, Sexuality and Gender in Classical Art and Archaeology (London, 1997): 95, 100, FIGS.10, 12 (A, B) Kondoleon, C., Grossmann, R.A., et al., MFA Highlights, Classical Art (Boston, 2008): 66 (COLOUR OF A) Lefkowitz, M., Greek Gods, Human Lives (New Haven and London, 2003): FRONTISPIECE 3, 121, 124 (A, B, PART OF A) Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae: VI, PL.36, KLYTAIMESTRA 16 (A) Maas, M. and Snyder, J.M, Stringed Instruments of Ancient Greece (New Haven, 1989): 137, FIG.17 (B) Morford, M. et al., Classical Mythology, International Ninth Edition (Oxford, 2011): 442, 459 (A, B) Morris, S.P., Daidalos and the Origins of Greek Art (Princeton, 1992): FIG.7 (A, B) Neils, J. and Oakley, J.H. (eds.), Coming of Age in Ancient Greece, Images of Childhood from the Classical Past (New Haven, 2003): 122, FIG.9 (B) Powell, B., Homer's Iliad and Odyssey. The Essential Books (Oxford, 2015): 253, FIG.1 (A) Reeder, E.D. et al., Pandora, Women in Classical Greece (Baltimore, 1995): 106, FIG.6 (A) Robertson, C.M., The art of vase-painting in classical Athens (Cambridge, 1992): 117, FIG.118 (A) Schefold, K., Jung, F., Die Sagen von den Argonauten, von Theben und Troia in der klassischen und hellenistischen Kunst (Munich, 1989): 299-300, FIGS.257-258 (A, B) Schmidt, S. and Stähli, A. (eds.), Vasenbilder im Kulturtransfer, Zirkulation und Rezeption griechischer Keramik im Mittelmeerraum, Beiheft zum Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum Deutschland V (Munich, 2012): 86, FIGS.3-4 (A, B) Shapiro H.A., Myth into Art, Poet and Painter in Classical Athens (London, 1994): 128-129, 137, FIGS.89-90, 96 (A, B, UH) Stansbury-O'Donnell, M.D, Pictorial Narrative in Ancient Greek Art (Cambridge, 1999): 107, FIG.45 (A)
CAVI Lemma: RF CALYX KRATER. DOKIMASIA PAINTER. SECOND QUARTER FIFTH. 458 OR 457 B.C.
(VERMEULE){1}.
CAVI Subject: A: DEATH OF AGAMEMNON BY AEGISTHUS. B: DEATH OF AEGISTHUS BY ORESTES.
CAVI Inscriptions: A: BETWEEN AEGISTHUS AND AGAMEMNON: ε ε{2}. B: NONSENSE: BETWEEN CLYTEMNESTRA
AND ORESTES, RUNNING OVER HER ARM: νονενον. OVER ELECTRA'S FOREARM: N. ABOVE
AEGISTHUS' HEAD: N(.){3}. OVER ELECTRA'S PALM: A BROKEN ETA?{4}.
CAVI Footnotes: {1} BUT STYLISTICALLY EARLIER. {2} VERMEULE'S INTERPRETATION OF TWO SMALL
EPSILONS, SEPARATED FROM EACH OTHER, ONE OF WHICH IS VISIBLE IN PL. 3, FIG. 4
AND IS NOT PARTICULARLY RELATED TO AGAMEMNON'S OPEN MOUTH. E.V.: " THE GROANS
HANG PAINTED IN THE AIR BETWEEM THE TWO MEN." I DO NOT KNOW WHAT TO MAKE OF
THIS; NOTE THAT B HAS NONSENSE INSCRIPTIONS. ARE THERE NO OTHER LETTERS ON A?
{3} THE SECOND LETTER IS A STROKE - OF IOTA OR ETA? {4} E.V. THINKS PERHAPS νη̣
IS INTENDED.
CAVI Comments: THE BG SURFACE IS POOR AND SOME LETTERS ON B MAY HAVE FLAKED OFF. I HAVE
RELIED ON E.V. EXCEPT FOR THE ONE EPSILON THAT SHOWS IN THE PHOTO. - E.V.
COMPARES THE NONSENSE LETTERS ON NEW YORK 06.1021.188, ALSO BY THE DOKIMASIA
PAINTER; SEE AJA 70 (1966) 5 N. 8.
