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.
