Decoration: A: ATHENA, THESEUS AND THE LABYRINTH, DRAPED FIGURES B: THESEUS AND SKIRON, THESEUS AND PROKRUSTES
Last Recorded Collection: Athens, National Museum, Acropolis Collection: 1.1280
Publication Record: Batino, S., Lo skyphos attico dall'iconografia alla funzione (Naples, 2002): 469, FIG.41 (DRAWING) Borgers, O., The Theseus painter, style, shapes and iconography, Allard Pierson Series 16 (Amsterdam, 2004): FIG.52, PL.25C-D (INCL. PROFILE) Graef, B. and Langlotz, E., Die antiken Vasen von der Akropolis zu Athen 1 (Berlin, 1925): PL.73.1280 Haspels, C.H.E., Attic Black-figured Lekythoi (Paris, 1936): 249.1, 142, 163, 179 Hatzivassiliou, E., Athenian Black Figure Iconography between 510 and 475 B.C. (Rahden, 2010): PL.9.4 (DRAWING) Kerenyi, K., Dionysos (London, 1976): FIG.29 (DRAWING OF A) Lang-Auinger, C. and Trinkl, E. (eds.), Griechische Vasen als Medium für Kommunikation. Ausgewählte Aspekte. Akten des internationalen Symposiums im Kunsthistorischen Museum Wien, 5.-7. Oktober 2017. CVA Österreich, Beiheft 3 (Vienna, 2021): 31, FIG.14 (COLOUR OF A) Pala, E., Acropoli di Atene, Un microcosmo della produzione e distribuzione della ceramica attica (Rome, 2012): 178, FIGS.80-81 (DRAWING OF A AND B) Phritzilas, S., Ho Zographos tou Thisea, I attiki angeigraphia stin epochi tis neosystatis athenaikis demokratias (Athens, 2006): 83, FIG.21, PL.41.153 (INCL. PROFILE)
CAVI Lemma: Frs. of BF skyphos. From Athens. Unattributed. Last quarter sixth{1}.
CAVI Subject: Fr. a: Theseus in front of the labyrinth; Athena and three other figures. Fr.
b: two scenes from Theseus' exploits.
CAVI Inscriptions: Fr. a: to right of (behind) Theseus and to left of the labyrinth: nonsense:
φτ(h)ν[---].
CAVI Footnotes: {1} Graef: contemporary with RF severe style (Wolters, p. 127).
CAVI Comments: Frs. a and b. Letters almost imitation, but strongly written. For the
labyrinth, see Wolters; also Graef–Langlotz (1925–33), i, no. 1314; SB Bayr.
Akad. 1911; Elderkin, AJA 14 (1910) 185.
CAVI Number: 1045
AVI Bibliography: Milani (1890), 209 [[did not know this piece]]. — Wolters (1907), 123, pl. 3.
— Graef–Langlotz (1925–33), i, no. 1280, pl. 73.
CAVI / AVI Data from Henry Immerwahr's Corpus of Attic Vase Inscriptions (CAVI), updated by Rudoph Wachter's Attic Vase Inscriptions (AVI)
