Decoration: A: TRIPTOLEMOS SEATED IN WINGED CHARIOT DRAWN BY SNAKES WITH PHIALE, DEPARTING, DEMETER WITH OINOCHOE, PERSEPHONE, WOMEN WITH TORCHES, ONE SEATED B: DIONYSOS WITH THYRSOS AND KANTHAROS, PAPPOSILENOS WITH WINESKIN, MAENADS, ONE WITH LYRE, ONE WITH OINOCHOE AND TORCH (?) Under handle 1: PAN IN DEER SKIN Under handle 2: SATYR IN LEOPARD SKIN WITH THYRSOS
Last Recorded Collection: Stanford (CA), Stanford University: 70.12
Previous Collections:
Basel, market, Münzen und Medaillen A.G.
Stanford (CA), Stanford University: 1970.12
Publication Record: Boschung, D., Greub, T., and Hammerstaedt, J. (eds.), Geographische Kenntnisse und ihre konkreten Ausformungen (Munich, 2013): 111-114, FIGS.9-12 (A, B, UH) Clinton, K., Myth and Cult, The Iconography of the Eleusinian Mysteries (Stockholm, 1992): 166-167, FIGS.11-14 Kressirer, K., Das Greisenalter in der griechischen Antike. Untersuchung der Vasenbilder und Schriftquellen der archaischen und klassischen Zeit (Hamburg, 2016): 855, NO.551 (PART) Kunstwerke der Antike, Münzen und Medaillen, A.G., Basel, sale catalogue: 40 (13.12.1969), PL.46, NO.108 (A, B, SIDE) Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae: VIII, PL.631, PAN 243 (AH) Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae: VIII, PL.646, PERSEPHONE 127 (A) Namata, Timitikos tomos gia ton kathigti Dimitrio Pantermali (Thessaloniki, 2011): 294, FIG.5 (UH, PARTS OF A AND B) Raubitschek, A.E. et al., The School of Hellas, Essays on Greek History, Archaeology and Literature: FIGS.21-24 (A, B, SIDES) Smith, A.C., Polis and Personification in Classical Athenian Art (Leiden, 2011): FIG.8.2 (B)
CAVI Collection: STANFORD, UNIVERSITY MUSEUM 70.12.
CAVI Lemma: RF VOLUTE KRATER{1}. MANNER OF KLEOPHON PAINTER (CAHN). THIRD QUARTER FIFTH.
CA. 430 (CAHN).
CAVI Subject: A: SENDING OUT OF TRIPTOLEMOS IN THE WINGED CHAIR: AT LEFT, DEMETER SEATED,
WITH A COMPANION POURING HER A LIBATION; AT RIGHT, KORE (PERSEPHONE) POURING
INTO A PHIALE HELD BY TRIPTOLEMOS; ANOTHER COMPANION. B: DIONYSIAC THIASOS: A
MAENAD PLAYING THE LYRE; AN OLD SATYR; DIONYSUS; A MAENAD WITH AN OINOCHOE.
UNDER THE HANDLES: BETWEEN THE MAENAD WITH THE OINOCHOE AND THE SEATED DEMETER:
PAN. BETWEEN KORE'S COMPANION AND THE LYRE PLAYER: A SATYR.
CAVI Inscriptions: A: Δεμετερ. HER COMPANION: Παρθ[ενο]ς(?){2}. [Τ]ριπτολενς, FOR
[Τ]ριπτολε(μ)[ο]ς{2}. MISWRITTEN. Κορε. HER COMPANION: [--]ε[--]. B:
...αιτ..αλε-πομ..ς(?){3}. Διον[υσος]. UNDER THE LEFT HANDLE: [Π]αν{4}.
CAVI Footnotes: {1} SOMEWHAT FRAGMENTARY. {2} CAHN. {3} SO CAHN'S TEXT. IT IS UNCLEAR HOW
THESE LETTERS ARE TO BE DIVIDED AMONG THE FIRST TWO FIGURES: [--]αιτ[--](?).
(Κ)λε[ο]πομ[πο]ς(?). {4} ..αν, CAHN.
CAVI Comments: EX BASEL MARKET (M.M.). THE TWO SCENES ARE CONNECTED AS BEING ELEUSINIAN. THE
INSCRIPTIONS ARE VERY FAINT AND HARD TO READ. ATTIC ALPHABET.
