Attributed To:Akin to POLYGNOTOS, GROUP OF by HERBERT
Decoration: A: SPHINX (THEBAN) ON COLUMN, YOUTH WITH SPEARS, CHLAMYS AND PETASOS, DOG B: WOMAN WITH PHIALE, DRAPED MAN (OLD ?) WITH STAFF (SCEPTRE ?)
Last Recorded Collection: Brunswick (ME), Bowdoin College: 1913.8
Publication Record: Moret, J.-M., Oedipe, la Sphinx et les Thebains (Rome, 1984): PL.44 (A, B) Noble, J., The Techniques of Painted Attic Pottery (London, 1966): FIG.254 (PART OF A)
CAVI Lemma: RF column krater. From Gela. Unattributed{1}. Ca. 450.
CAVI Subject: A: Oedipus and the sphinx. B: man and woman.
CAVI Inscriptions: Under the foot, Grr.{2}, retr.: ΑΙΙΙΙΙ-{3}. Below: Αχενατω ^
Κορι[ν](θ)ι[οργεις] ΠΗ{4}.
CAVI Footnotes: {1} Hesp. reports an attribution by Beazley to the Group of Polygnotos; it is
not in ARV[2] and Para. but is apparently accepted in Johnston (1979). {2}
Κορι[ν]θι[ουργεις] ΠΙΙ Αχενατῳ. So the text in Hesp., inaccurately. {3} the last
sign = Argive lambda (drachma sign). {4} Attic pi.
CAVI Comments: Johnston reads both Grr. together: A 10 obols (four obols and 1 drachma) and
name plus batch notation. For ΠΗ see Johnston (1979), 232: perhaps emend to ΠΙΙ
= 7 [giving a batch notation; the other Gr. giving the price]. Or πη[λινα](?) -
Amyx took the name to be in the dative and this is apparently accepted by
Johnston (see his n. 5) [but it is clearly omega for omicron upsilon, see AttScr
(1990), 167].
