Decoration: A: WEDDING OF HELEN AND THESEUS, POSEIDON, PERITHOOS, LEDA, DRAPED MAN WITH SCEPTRE, YOUTHS, ONE IN CHLAMYS WITH SPEARS, SOME DRAPED, ONE WITH SACRIFICIAL BASKET, TABLE, WOMEN, ONE WITH SCEPTRE, SOME IN PATTERNED COSTUMES, ONE SQUATTING, EROTES WITH WREATHS, ALTAR, HYDRIA, BUKRANION SUSPENDED Neck: CENTAUROMACHY, CENTAURS WITH TREES OR STAFFS, WARRIORS (KAINEUS)
Last Recorded Collection: Potenza, Museo: 51534
Previous Collections:
Potenza, Museo: 54622
Potenza, Museo: 51532
Potenza, Museo: 54623
Publication Record: Barra Bagnosco, M., De Miro, E., and Pinzone, Origine e incontri di culture nell'antichita Magna Grecia e Sicila (Messina, 1999): PL. De la Geniere, J. (ed.), Le cratere a volutes. Destination d'un vase de prestige entre Grecs et non-Grecs (Paris, 2014): 129-132, PLS.1-4 (INCUDING COLOUR AND DRAWINGS) Froning, H., Hölscher, T., and Mielsch, H. (eds.), Kotinos, Festschrift für Erika Simon (Mainz, 1992): PL.50.3-5 Gebauer, J., Pompe und Thysia, attische Tieropferdarstellungen auf schwarz- und rotfigurigen Vasen (Münster, 2002): 723, FIG.125 (DRAWING OF A) Greco, G. (ed.), Serra di Vaglio, la casa dei pithoi (Modena): 44-45, FIGS.105-106 (DRAWING, COLOUR OF PARTS) Hagg, R. (ed.), Ancient Greek Hero Cult, Proceedings of the 5th International Seminar on Ancient Greek Cult (Stockholm, 1999): 106, FIG.6 (PART OF A) Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae: VI, 235, PL.113, LEDA 34 (PART, DRAWING) Mugione, E., Miti della ceramica attica in Occidente, Problemi di trasmissioni iconografiche nelle produzioni italiote (Taranto, 2000): 131-132, FIGS.7A-C (A, PARTS OF A) Oakley, J.H., and Sinos, R.H., The wedding in ancient Athens (Madison, 1993): 52, FIG.2 (DRAWING) PHOTOGRAPH(S) IN THE BEAZLEY ARCHIVE: 3 (PARTS) RIASA: 8-9 (1985-86), 5-35 Revue Archeologique: (1988) 1, 286, FIG.22 Rivista dell'Istituto Nazionale d'Archeologia e Storia dell' Arte: 8-9 (1985/86), 5-35, FIG.1 Servadei, C., La figura di Theseus nella ceramica Attica, Iconografia e iconologia del mito nell' Atene arcaica e classica (Bologna, 2005): 164, FIG.71 (A) Thesaurus Cultus et Rituum Antiquorum: V, 273.788 (DRAWING) van Straten, F.T., Hiera Kala, Images of Animal Sacrifice in Archaic and Classical Greece (Leiden, 1995): FIG.41 (DRAWING)
CAVI Lemma: Fragmentary RF krater. From Serra di Vaglio. Talos Painter. Last quarter
fifth.
CAVI Subject: A: Sacrifice at the Wedding of Theseus and Helen: at left, a bearded man,
seated (Tyndareos?); the Dioscouri; Theseus to right at an altar, with Eros
flying toward him; to right of the altar, Perithous with phiale and kanoun; Leda
to left, holding a staff and wreath; Helen to left, with Eros placing a wreath
on her head; two female figures; under the scene, an amphora and a boy leaning
over a chest (the pais amphithales?).
CAVI Inscriptions: Theseus. Above the youth's head, roughly horizontal: Περιθος, Leda, Helen{1}.
Above the head of the Eros who is above Helen, horizontal: Ερως. [[Greco's drs.
show: [...]ευς, Περιθοο[.], [...].δα (probably with an eta), Ελε[...], and
Ερως]].
CAVI Footnotes: {1} so Oakley and Sinos. The dr. shows some of the letters, but faintly.
Those near Theseus, Leda and Helen do not seem very close to the names: in each
case, the dr. shows only three letters, but it is probably reduced and hence
unclear.
CAVI Comments: Oakley and Sinos interpret the scene as the προτελεια of a wedding. On the
relation of this scene to Theseus' abduction of Helen, see their p. 13. Ionic
alphabet.
CAVI Number: 7475a
AVI Bibliography: Greco (1985–6), with figs. — Oakley–Sinos (1993), 12-13, fig. 2 (dr., after
Greco).
CAVI / AVI Data from Henry Immerwahr's Corpus of Attic Vase Inscriptions (CAVI), updated by Rudoph Wachter's Attic Vase Inscriptions (AVI)
