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)
