Last Recorded Collection: Reggio Calabria, Museo Nazionale: 4001
Previous Collections:
Reggio Calabria, Museo Nazionale: 12862
Publication Record: Archäologischer Anzeiger: 1998, 377, FIG.3 (PART) Beazley, J.D., Attic Black-Figure Vase-Painters (Oxford, 1956): 147.6, 147, 714 Beazley, J.D., Paralipomena (Oxford, 1971): 61 Carpenter, T.H., with Mannack, T. and Mendonca, M., Beazley Addenda, 2nd edition (Oxford, 1989): 41 Comella, A and Mele, S. (eds.), Depositi votivi e culti dell'Italia antica dall'eta arcaica a quella tardo-republicana (Bari, 2005): 706, PL.2C Giudice, E. and Giudice, G. (eds.), Studi Miscellanei di Ceramografia Greca V (Catania, 2019): 25-26, PLS.2-3 (INCL. COLOUR OF PARTS) Giudice, E. and Giudice, G. (eds.), Studi miscellanei di ceramografia Greca III (Catania, 2017): 36, PL.3, FIG.8 Hayashi, T., Bedeutung und Wandel des Triptolemosbildes vom 6.-4. Jh.v.Chr., Beiträge zur Archäologie 20 (Würzburg, 1992): PL.1 (A, PART OF A) Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae: V, PL.86, HERAKLES 2592 Oakley, J.H. et al., Athenian Potters and Painters, The Conference Proceedings (Oxford, 1997): 98, FIG.1 Reusser, C. and Bürge, M. (eds.), Exekias und seine Welt, Tagung an der Universität Zürich vom 1.–2. März 2019, Züricher Archäologische Forschungen 8 (Zurich, 2022): PL.15B Schefold, K. and Jung, F., Die Urkönige, Perseus, Bellerophon, Herakles und Theseus in der klassischen und hellenistischen Kunst (Munich, 1988): FIG.38 Shapiro, H.A., Art and Cult under the Tyrants in Athens (Mainz, 1989): PL.33A
CAVI Collection: Reggio Calabria, Museo Nazionale 4001.
CAVI Lemma: Fr. of BF amphora. From Locri, Sanctuary of Persephone. Manner of Exekias{1};
Exekias (Schwarz). Third quarter sixth. Ca. 530 (Schwarz).
CAVI Subject: Neck: Heracles and Cerberus. Body: A: Demeter mounting a chariot, with
Triptolemos, Athena, Heracles, Hermes and Ploutodotas (= Iakchos).
CAVI Inscriptions: Body: A: above Triptolemos' head: Τριπτολεμος̣, retr. To right of Athena's
forehead: Αθενας. Below the horses' bellies: h[ερακλες or -κλεος]. To left of
his face: Πλουτοδο^τας, end-boustr. On the horse, Gr.: a dotted circle and a
sigma or snake(?): horse brands.
CAVI Footnotes: {1} close to Exekias, Beazley, who compares Exekias' North Slope krater (ABV
145/19).
CAVI Comments: Found in the early century but not published til 1952. D. Williams: the
subject of A is perhaps appropriate to a Locrian sanctuary. He also discusses
the `non-Attic' forms of Ploutodotas and Athenas. Shapiro thinks that the vase
celebrates the founding of the Lesser Eleusinian Mysteries in Athens.
Schauenburg identifies Ploutodotas with Pluto; Beazley called the figure Pluton
in ARV[2], but corrected it in Para. to `strictly, Ploutodotas'; Procopio
suggested Hades but left the identification open, saying that many divinities
have this epithet [see LSJ, s.v. πλουτοδοτης]. Shapiro has much discussion of
other identifications. Simon suggests Dionysus-Iakchos. Shapiro himself thinks
Ploutodotas the Orphic name of Zeus Meilichios. Cf. M.H. Jameson et al., A Lex
Sacra from Selinous (GRBS Monographs 11, 1993) 95 n. 13. Matheson.: most
scholars assume an Eleusinian setting but Boardman and Shapiro think of an
Athenian connection: Boardman (1975a), 1-12. Shapiro, Art and Cult 78ff. Hayashi
numbers the representation as type A, of which this is the only example. Nilsson
referred it to the Hom. hymn to Demeter, which represented the Eleusinian rural
religion. Hayashi argues against this (15f., 27f.): he relates the picture to
the introduction of the Eleusinian cult to Athens under Solon. The handwriting
is certainly not Exekias'.
CAVI Number: 6888
AVI Bibliography: Orsi (1909), 474 (not ill.). — Procopio (1952), 153ff., pls. 30,1 and 31-32.
— Schauenburg (1953), 47 and n. 41 (not ill.). — ABV (1956), 147/6, 714. — H.
Metzger (1965), pls. 1, below, and 2. — Nilsson (1967), 860 (further bibl. by
Nilsson, Hayashi 93 n. 26). — Para. (1971), 61. — Peschlow-Bindokat (1972), 73
and 146f. — Boardman (1975a), pl. 1,a. — Bianchi (1976), fig. 12. — D. Williams
(1982), 28-29. — G. Schwarz (1988), 575-77 and nn. 8-16, fig. 1 (after Arch.
Class.) (much bibl.). — Add.[2] (1989), 41. — Shapiro (1989), 70 n., 75, 78-81,
117 n., pl. 33,a. — Hayashi (1992), 11, 13 with n. 42, 126/1, pl. 1,1-2. —
Matheson (1994), 364-66. — Simon (1997), 98, fig. 1.
CAVI / AVI Data from Henry Immerwahr's Corpus of Attic Vase Inscriptions (CAVI), updated by Rudoph Wachter's Attic Vase Inscriptions (AVI)
