Decoration: BIRTH OF DIONYSOS, ZEUS SEATED WITH SCEPTRE, DRAPED FIGURE
Last Recorded Collection: Bonn, Akademisches Kunstmuseum: 1216.19
Publication Record: Arafat, K., Classical Zeus, A Study in Art and Literature (Oxford, 1990): PL.10B Beazley, J.D., Attic Red-figure Vase-painters, 1st ed. (Oxford, 1942): 796.3 Bentz, M., Geominy, W., and Müller, J.M. (eds.), TonArt, Virtuosität antiker Töpfertechnik. Eine Ausstellung im Akademischen Kunstmuseum-Antikensammlung der Universität Bonn 18.November 2010-17. April 2011 (Petersberg, 2010): 227, C1.202 (COLOUR) Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum: BONN, AKADEMISCHES KUNSTMUSEUM 1, 31, 32, 33, 39-40, PL.(33) 33.9 View Whole CVA Plates Isler-Kerenyi, C., Dionysos in Classical Athens. An Understanding through Images (Leiden and Boston, 2014): 102, FIG.52 Journal of Hellenic Studies: 54 (1934), 176, FIG.1 Philippart, H., Iconographie des Bacchantes d'Euripides (Paris,1930): 19, FIG.2 (DRAWING) Taras, Rivista di Archeologia: 47-50 (2004-2005) 64, FIG.7
CAVI Lemma: Fr. of RF calyx krater. From Athens. Unattributed. Last quarter fifth.
420-410.
CAVI Subject: A: Birth of Dionysus: Zeus seated; Dionysus emerging from his thigh; a hand
holding a cloth to receive him (Hermes? Eileithyia?).
CAVI Inscriptions: A: at top right: (κ)αλ[ος]{1}.
CAVI Footnotes: {1} in white. The first two letters also lightly incised [inscription in
preliminary sketch?] (CVA).
CAVI Comments: Found with about 400 frs. in a private house in Athens: dump of a potter's
workshop, many, but not all, by the Painter of the Athens Dinos (Greifenhagen;
see ARV[2], p. 1180). This fr. is not listed as by this painter. Kappa
miswritten.
CAVI Number: 2597
AVI Bibliography: Philippart (1930), 19/22, fig. 2. — Greifenhagen (1931), n. .... — Trendall
(1934), 176/2, fig. 1. — Greifenhagen (1935), 417 n. — A. Greifenhagen, CVA Bonn
1, Germany 1 (1938), pl. 33,9.
CAVI / AVI Data from Henry Immerwahr's Corpus of Attic Vase Inscriptions (CAVI), updated by Rudoph Wachter's Attic Vase Inscriptions (AVI)
