Decoration: A: YOUTHS WITH SPEARS, ONE SEATED (HERAKLES ?), ONE IN CHLAMYS AND BOOTS (PERITHOOS ?), THESEUS WITH CLUB AND PETASOS, POSEIDON, BOTH SEATED, ATHENA, ALTAR B: DRAPED YOUTHS, POSTS, DISKOI SUSPENDED
Notes: Colour images copyright Nicholson Collection, Chau Chak Wing Museum, The University of Sydney
CAVI Collection: London, Edward Armytage.
CAVI Lemma: RF bell krater. From Corinth. Unattributed{1}. First quarter fourth. Ca. 380
(Pryce).
CAVI Subject: A: Theseus' purification of Attica(2): Peirithoos and Phorbas; a wreathed
altar; above, Theseus seated; Athena; Poseidon seated. B: three draped youths;
two bases.
CAVI Inscriptions: A: above Theseus' head: ca. 13 dots imitating an inscription. To left of
Athena's raised arm: ca. five dots.
CAVI Footnotes: {1} in ARV[1] attributed `probably' to the Oinomaos Painter; omitted in
ARV[2]. {2} this is Pryce's interpretation.
CAVI Number: 4761
AVI Bibliography: Pryce (1936), 77-78, pl. 5. — ARV[1] (1942), 879, bottom.
CAVI / AVI Data from Henry Immerwahr's Corpus of Attic Vase Inscriptions (CAVI), updated by Rudoph Wachter's Attic Vase Inscriptions (AVI)
