Decoration: A: TRIPTOLEMOS, NAMED, SEATED IN WINGED CHARIOT WITH SCEPTRE AND PHIALE, GODDESSES WITH CORN, ONE WITH OINOCHOE, ONE WITH TORCHES (DEMETER, PERSEPHONE) B: WOMEN, ONE WITH PHIALE, ONE WITH OINOCHOE, DRAPED MAN WITH SCEPTRE
Last Recorded Collection: Athens, private, Ms. Marianne Latsis
Previous Collections:
Basel, market, Münzen und Medaillen A.G.
Cannes, private
London, market, Sotheby's
Publication Record: Beazley, J.D., Attic Red-Figure Vase-Painters, 2nd edition (Oxford, 1963): 1031.37 Beazley, J.D., Paralipomena (Oxford, 1971): 442 Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae: VIII, PL.646, PERSEPHONE 121 (PART OF A) Matheson, S.B., Polygnotos and Vase Painting in Classical Athens (Madison, 1995): 20, PL.12 (A) Sotheby, sale catalogue: 11.7.1988, 80-81, NO.140 (COLOUR OF A, B)
CAVI Lemma: RF NECK AMPHORA WITH TWISTED HANDLES. POLYGNOTOS. THIRD QUARTER FIFTH. CA.
450 (CAHN).
CAVI Subject: A: TRIPTOLEMOS IN HIS WINGED CHAIR BETWEEN DEMETER AND PERSEPHONE. B:
LIBATION: IN THE CENTER, A BEARDED MAN WITH A SCEPTER; AT LEFT, WOMAN WITH A
PHIALE; AT RIGHT WOMAN WITH AN OINOCHOE.
CAVI Inscriptions: A: ABOVE THE SCENE: Τ[ριπτ]ολενος, FOR Τριπτολεμος{1}.
CAVI Footnotes: {1} THE READING FROM THE TEXT OF AUKTION. APPARENTLY MISWRITTEN.
