Decoration: A: AGRICULTURE, MAN (BOUZYGES ?) PLOUGHING, OLD MAN (KEKROPS ?) LEANING ON STAFF, WOMAN WITH SPEAR (ATHENA) AND SHEAF OF CORN, TREE, INSCRIPTION B: DRAPED YOUTHS, SOME WITH STAFFS
Last Recorded Collection: Cambridge (MA), Harvard University, Arthur M. Sackler Museum: 60.345
Previous Collections:
Cambridge (MA), Harvard University, Arthur M. Sackler Museum: 1960.345
Publication Record: Amouretti, M-C., Le pain et l'huile dans la Grèce Antique, de l'araire au moulin (Paris, 1986): PL.9C (DRAWING OF PART OF A) Beazley, J.D., Attic Red-Figure Vase-Painters, 2nd edition (Oxford, 1963): 1115.30 Beazley, J.D., Paralipomena (Oxford, 1971): 453 Carpenter, T.H., with Mannack, T. and Mendonca, M., Beazley Addenda, 2nd edition (Oxford, 1989): 331 Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum: BALTIMORE, ROBINSON COLLECTION 2, 35-36, PL.(291) 48.2A-B View Whole CVA Plates Distler, S.A., Bauern und Banausen, Darstellungen des Handwerks und der Landwirtschaft in der griechischen Vasenmalerei (Wiesbaden, 2022): PL.26.5 (A) Filser, W., Die Elite Athens auf der attischen Luxuskeramik, Image & Context 16 (Berlin, Munich, Boston, 2017): 125, FIG.19 (A) Kressirer, K., Das Greisenalter in der griechischen Antike. Untersuchung der Vasenbilder und Schriftquellen der archaischen und klassischen Zeit (Hamburg, 2016): 844, NO.309 (PART OF A) Opuscula Atheniensia, Acta Instituti Atheniensis Regni Sueciae: 7 (2014) 165, FIG.12 (COLOUR OF A) Schefold, K. and Jung, F., Die Urkönige, Perseus, Bellerophon, Herakles und Theseus in der klassischen und hellenistischen Kunst (Munich, 1988): 80, FIG.91 (A)
CAVI Lemma: RF bell krater. From Vari. Hephaistos Painter (Later Mannerist). 430-420.
CAVI Subject: A: Bouzyges(1) and the first plow; olive tree; woman{2}. B: three youths.
CAVI Inscriptions: Graffiti: Modern: redrawn: B: Διο^κλες ^ hαλαι^ευς. A: continued from B:
Κε...πια.{3}. Ancient: Δι̣οκ̣λ̣ε̣[ς] ḥα̣λα[ι]ε̣υ̣[ς] | [Κ]εκροπιδ̣ο̣ς.
CAVI Footnotes: {1} Beazley puts a question mark. {2} falsely identified with Athena by
Robinson, see Beazley (1938). {3} ^ shows intervening heads, which are not
disturbed by the inscription; in the first rendering (called `Modern') single
underlining [[both final sigmas]] shows letters that are partially redrawn on
plaster; double underlining [[αι of hαλαι^ευς, Κ of Κε...πια..]] shows letters
fully in the plaster; the other letters are ancient. [However, the rendering of
the inscription above is unclear: the second alpha of Halaieus and the kappa of
Κε..πια... are partially in plaster; the two final sigmas and the iota of
Halaieus are totally in plaster. In the last line (`Ancient:'), which is based
on Beazley's photo, both the dotted and undotted letters are ancient.
CAVI Comments: Ex Baltimore, Robinson. From a cemetery at Vari, Attica. Robinson says some
bones were found in the vase. A photo in Beazley's possession showed the vase
before its reconstruction. Large coarse letters. Mixed alphabet.
