Decoration: A: DRAPED FIGURES I, zone around: DRAPED FIGURE, HOLDING SCEPTRE I: DEMETER ? SEATED WITH SCEPTRE AND PHIALE, PERSEPHONE ? POURING FROM OINOCHOE
Last Recorded Collection: Athens, National Museum: 2187
Publication Record: Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae: IV, PL.578, DEMETER 261 (I) Mertens, J., Attic White Ground, its development on shapes other than lekythoi (New York, 1977): PL.34.2 (DRAWING OF I, OF PROFILE) Mitteilungen des Deutschen Archäologischen Instituts, Athenische Abteilung: 6 (1881) PL.4 (DRAWING OF I) Wehgartner, I., Attische Weissgrundige Keramik (Mainz, 1983): PL.26
CAVI Lemma: Frs. of RF/WG cup. From Athens. Unattributed. Second quarter fifth.
CAVI Subject: Int.: WG: libation: Demeter seated, with scepter and phiale. Kore with
scepter and oinochoe, pours. Ext.: RF: remains of three draped figures, one with
a stick.
CAVI Inscriptions: Int.: on a fr. with the tip of Persephone's scepter: Φερρ(ε)φατ[τα]. On
another fr.: beginning of a name, apparently Μ̣[--]{1}.
CAVI Footnotes: {1} gamma, alpha, or delta also possible.
CAVI Comments: Furtw. in AM says that around the central medaillon there seems to have been
a group of standing figures, of which only the bottom of one and the end of a
scepter remain.
CAVI Number: 0837
AVI Bibliography: Furtwängler (1881), 112, pl. 4. — Hartwig (1893), 499ff./20. —
Collignon–Couve (1902–4), no. 1844.
CAVI / AVI Data from Henry Immerwahr's Corpus of Attic Vase Inscriptions (CAVI), updated by Rudoph Wachter's Attic Vase Inscriptions (AVI)
