Decoration: A: THESEUS AND MINOTAUR, MINOS WITH SCEPTRE, ARIADNE WITH WREATH, ALL NAMED B: DRAPED MEN, ONE DRAPED MEN, ALL WITH SCEPTRES AND NAMED
Last Recorded Collection: Athens, National Museum, Acropolis Collection: 2.735
Previous Collections:
Athens, National Museum: 15115
Publication Record: Angiolillo, S., and Giuman, M. (eds.), Imago, Studi di iconografia antica (Cagliari, 2007): 178, FIG.3 (DRAWING OF A) Beazley, J.D., Attic Red-Figure Vase-Painters, 2nd edition (Oxford, 1963): 259.1 Beazley, J.D., Attic Red-figure Vase-painters, 1st ed. (Oxford, 1942): 195.1 Beazley, J.D., Attische Vasenmaler des rotfigurigen Stils (Tübingen, 1925): 158.1 Ephemeris Archaiologike: 1885, PL.11 Frank, S., Attische Kelchkratere, eine Untersuchung zum Zusammenspiel von Gefässform und Bemalung (Frankfurt, 1990): PL.18 (A, B, SIDE) Graef, B. and Langlotz, E., Die antiken Vasen von der Akropolis zu Athen 2 (Berlin, 1933): PL.61 Kaltsas N. (ed.), Agon, Exhibition catalogue (Athens, 2004): 119, NO.17 (COLOUR OF A) Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae: VI, PL.155, LYKOS III 1 (DRAWINGS OF A AND B) Mediterranean Historical Review (Tel Aviv University): 7 (1992) 1, 43, FIGS.6-7 (A, B) Mitteilungen des Deutschen Archäologischen Instituts, Athenische Abteilung: 16 (1891) 200-1 Neer, R.T., Style and Politics in Athenian Vase-Painting, The Craft of Democracy, ca.530-460 B.C.E. (Cambridge, 2002): 141, FIG.61 (DRAWING OF B) Schefold, K. and Jung, F., Die Urkönige, Perseus, Bellerophon, Herakles und Theseus in der klassischen und hellenistischen Kunst (Munich, 1988): 54, FIGS.46-47 (DRAWINGS OF A AND B) Servadei, C., La figura di Theseus nella ceramica Attica, Iconografia e iconologia del mito nell' Atene arcaica e classica (Bologna, 2005): 102, FIG.42 (DRAWINGS OF A AND B)
CAVI Lemma: RF calyx krater. From Athens. Syriskos Painter. First quarter fifth.
CAVI Subject: A: Theseus and Minotaur in the labyrinth, with Minos and Ariadne. B: four
Attic heroes watching Theseus on A.
CAVI Inscriptions: A: to right of Minos' face: Μιν[ος]. To right of Ariadne's face: Αριαννε, for
Αριαγνε/Αριαδνε. To right of Theseus' forehead: Θεσευς. Above the Minotaur's
left arm: Μινοταυρος. B: to right of back of head: Ορνευς. Above seated Pallas'
head: Παλλας. To right of back of head: Nι[σ]ος. Similar: Λυκος.
CAVI Comments: + fr. in Athens. Neat lettering.
CAVI Number: 1426
AVI Bibliography: Tsountas (1885b), pls. 11-12. — Graef–Langlotz (1925–33), ii, no. 735, pl. 61
(dr.). — ARV[2] (1963), 259/1.
CAVI / AVI Data from Henry Immerwahr's Corpus of Attic Vase Inscriptions (CAVI), updated by Rudoph Wachter's Attic Vase Inscriptions (AVI)
