Decoration: A: DIONYSOS RECLINING WITH KANTHAROS, MAENADS WITH THYRSOI, ONE WITH TYMPANON, ONE WITH TRAY WITH FOOD, EROS FLYING WITH WREATH, ALL NAMED At handle: LAVER B: ATHLETES, YOUTHS, ONE WITH STRIGIL, ONE SEATED ON POST, ONE WITH SASH (VICTOR), HALTERES SUSPENDED
Last Recorded Collection: Athens, National Museum: 1138A
Previous Collections:
Athens, National Museum: 12594
Publication Record: Kephalidou, E., Nikitis, Eikonographiki meleti tou archaiou ellinikou athlitismou (Thessaloniki, 1996): PL.39.G67 (B) Nicole, G., Catalogue des vases peints du musee national d' Athenes, Suppl. (Paris, 1911): PL.20.1138, FIG.8 (A, B)
CAVI Lemma: RF BELL KRATER. UNATTRIBUTED. FIRST HALF FOURTH.
CAVI Subject: A: DIONYSUS RECLINING, WITH MAENADS. B: THREE YOUNG ATHLETES.
CAVI Inscriptions: A: ABOVE THE HEADS: Μαινας. Ερως. Διονυσος. ΕΟΜΘΙΑ.
CAVI Comments: ΕΟΜΘΙΑ: ONLY THE LAST TWO LETTERS ARE CERTAIN; IT IS THE NAME OF A MAENAD,
BADLY MISWRITTEN. NICOLE READ ΙΟΛ̣ΕΙΑ, HARDLY CORRECTLY, ALTHOUGH THIS IS
ACCEPTED BY FRäNKEL AND K.-D. G. NEUMANN APUD K.-D. SAYS: `WOHL KURZFORM ZU
Ιολαϝη ODER äHNLICH; KAUM ZU ιον "VEILCHEN". PAPE HAS IOLEIA = IOLE AS DAUGHTER
OF EURYTUS AND AS A SLAVE NAME IN PROPERTIUS.
CAVI Number: 0879
AVI Bibliography: NICOLE (1911), NO. 1138, PL. 20 (A), FIG. 8 (B). — C. FRäNKEL (1912), 51,
102/ο. — ATTSCR (1990), NO. 835. — KOSSATZ-DEISSMANN (1991), 182 (IOLEIA 1).
CAVI / AVI Data from Henry Immerwahr's Corpus of Attic Vase Inscriptions (CAVI), updated by Rudoph Wachter's Attic Vase Inscriptions (AVI)
