Decoration: A,B: WARRIORS DEPARTING, WOMEN WITH OINOCHOAI, PHIALE, HELMET, SPRIGS (WREATHS ?) AND FILLET, DRAPED MAN WITH STAFF, OLD MEN, ONE SEATED, BOTH WITH STAFFS, COLUMNS, DEVICE, WHEEL Neck A: MAN (YOUTH ?, THESEUS ?) PURSUING WOMAN, WOMEN, DRAPED MAN, DRAPED OLD MAN, BOTH WITH STAFFS, PALM TREE AT ALTAR, COLUMN Neck B: DOMESTIC (?), WOMEN, SOME WITH SCEPTRES (GODDESSES ?), SOME WITH SPRIGS AND PHIALE, STOOL, COLUMN
Last Recorded Collection: Boston (MA), Museum of Fine Arts: 33.56
Publication Record: Beazley, J.D., Attic Red-Figure Vase-Painters, 2nd edition (Oxford, 1963): 600.12 Beazley, J.D., Paralipomena (Oxford, 1971): 395 Boardman, J., Athenian Red Figure Vases, The Classical Period (London, 1989): FIG.3 (DRAWING OF A) Burn, L. and Glynn, R., Beazley Addenda (Oxford, 1982): 130 Carpenter, T.H., with Mannack, T. and Mendonca, M., Beazley Addenda, 2nd edition (Oxford, 1989): 266 Kressirer, K., Das Greisenalter in der griechischen Antike. Untersuchung der Vasenbilder und Schriftquellen der archaischen und klassischen Zeit (Hamburg, 2016): 868, 870, 873, NOS.988, 1023, 1092 (UH, PART OF A) Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae: VI, PL.450, NEOPTOLEMOS 13 (A) Prange, M., Der Niobidenmaler und seine Werkstatt, Untersuchungen zu einer Vasenwerkstatt frühklassischer Zeit (Frankfurt, 1989): PLS.6, 7.N13 (DRAWINGS OF B, UH) Schefold, K., Jung, F., Die Sagen von den Argonauten, von Theben und Troia in der klassischen und hellenistischen Kunst (Munich, 1989): 141-142, FIGS.123A-B (BD, A, B) Stansbury-O'Donnell, M.D., A History of Greek Art (Oxford, 2015): 232, FIG.9.18 (COLOUR OF A) Walter-Karydi, E., Die Athener und ihre Gräber (1000-300 v.Chr.) (Berlin, 2015): 228, FIG.124 (DRAWING OF NB)
CAVI Lemma: Fragmentary RF volute krater. From Cyrene{1}. Niobid Painter. Mid-fifth. Late
(Beazley).
CAVI Subject: Neck: A: youth or man (Theseus?) pursuing a woman. B: women (fragmentary).
Body: A-B: warriors leaving home{2}.
CAVI Inscriptions: Body: A: to left of the neck of the woman in the center (with oinochoe and
phiale), Gr. before firing and covered with glaze: a vertical N{3}.
CAVI Footnotes: {1} so the Museum card; ARV[2] says from Italy. {2} in Para. Beazley says
that Simon (1963: 57–59) has shown that A represents Achilles leaving Skyros; I
assume he is referring to the body picture. {3} see also CB, p. 78.
CAVI Comments: Obscure.
CAVI Number: 2799
AVI Bibliography: CB (1931–63), ii, 77/108, pls. 58-60. — ARV[2] (1963), 600/12. — Para.
(1971), 395. — Johnston (1979), 178/subs. list 1, 34. — Add.[2] (1989), 266.
CAVI / AVI Data from Henry Immerwahr's Corpus of Attic Vase Inscriptions (CAVI), updated by Rudoph Wachter's Attic Vase Inscriptions (AVI)
