Decoration: A: TRIPTOLEMOS DEPARTING IN WINGED CHARIOT WITH SCEPTRE AND PHIALE, PERSEPHONE WITH TORCH AND SCEPTRE, DEMETER WITH TORCH AND SHEAF OF CORN, GODDESS WITH OINOCHOE B: DRAPED YOUTHS, ONE WITH LYRE, ONE LEANING ON STAFF WITH STRIGIL
Last Recorded Collection: Durham (N.C.), Duke University, Museum of Art: 1964.27
Publication Record: Beazley, J.D., Paralipomena (Oxford, 1971): 442.29BIS Greek, Roman and Byzantine Studies: 35 (1994) 4, PLS.1-2 (A, PART OF A) Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae: VIII, PL.40, TRIPTOLEMOS 128 (A) Matheson, S.B., Polygnotos and Vase Painting in Classical Athens (Madison, 1995): 13, PL.4 (A)
CAVI Lemma: RF calyx krater. Polygnotos. Third quarter fifth. Ca. 460-450 (Stanley). Very
early (Matheson).
CAVI Subject: A: Triptolemos in his winged seat holding out a phiale, which is being filled
by Persephone from an oinochoe. At left, Hekate; at right, Demeter. B: at left,
a draped youth with a stick, holding a strigil; in the center, a draped and
hooded youth (or boy?); at right, a draped youth with a lyre.
CAVI Inscriptions: A: hεκατε. To right of T.'s head, horizontal: Τρ^ιπτολεμος{1}. Κορε. B: above
the lyre: καλος{2}.
CAVI Footnotes: {1} T.'s scepter intervenes. All but the first two letters are visible in pl.
26 of `Generation' and are in the Attic alphabet. {2} Stanley refers the
inscription to the lyre player as representing the educational effect of the
symposium, but I think it might refer to the boy in the middle, despite the
location. B may refer to a conflict between two lovers offering athletics and
music respectively.
CAVI Comments: Close to the Niobid Painter (M.). Bibl. on Triptolemos: GRBS 35 (1994) 345 n.
1.
CAVI Number: 3396+a
AVI Bibliography: Para. (1971), 442/29 bis. — G. Schwarz (1987), 131, pl. 13, fig. 24 (A). —
LIMC iv (1988), 874, Demeter 362. — Hayashi (1992), cat. no. 109. — Matheson
(1994), 346 n. 2 and 359, pls. 1-2 (A, detail of A). — Stanley (1994), 51/63,
pls. 24-26. — Matheson (1995), 12, 193, 353/P33, pl. 4 (A).
CAVI / AVI Data from Henry Immerwahr's Corpus of Attic Vase Inscriptions (CAVI), updated by Rudoph Wachter's Attic Vase Inscriptions (AVI)
