Decoration: A: ZEUS PURSUING THETIS, WOMAN (NEREID ?) FLEEING B: NEREID FLEEING TO NEREUS, PALM TREE BEHIND ALTAR
Last Recorded Collection: Boston (MA), Museum of Fine Arts: 95.23
Publication Record: Beazley, J.D., Attic Red-Figure Vase-Painters, 2nd edition (Oxford, 1963): 510.3 Frank, S., Attische Kelchkratere, eine Untersuchung zum Zusammenspiel von Gefässform und Bemalung (Frankfurt, 1990): 222, FIG.6 Gulick, C.B. (ed.), Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists (Cambridge and London, 1995): XI-XII, FIG.11 (A) Kressirer, K., Das Greisenalter in der griechischen Antike. Untersuchung der Vasenbilder und Schriftquellen der archaischen und klassischen Zeit (Hamburg, 2016): 848, NO.386 (PART OF B) Kéi, N., L'esthétique des fleurs, kosmos, poikilia et kharis dans la céramique attique du VIe et du Ve siècle av. n. ère, ICON 22 (Berlin and Boston, 2022): 149, FIG.117 (B) Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae: VI, PL.529, NEREUS 104 (B)
CAVI Lemma: RF calyx krater. From Orvieto. Fröhner Painter (see ARV[2]). Second quarter
fifth. 470-460 (Beazley).
CAVI Subject: A: Zeus pursuing Thetis. B: a Nereid fleeing to Nereus.
CAVI Inscriptions: A: to left of Thetis' head: nonsense: λο(.)λ, apparently complete. To right
of Zeus' face: λ(ο)(σ)[--. To right of his head: λονα(.) vac. B: to right of the
Nereid: καλος, retr. To left of Nereus' scepter: Nερευς, retr.
CAVI Comments: The lettering of the nonsense on A is different from (smaller than) the sense
on B; curious that the more important side has the lesser inscriptions. Are two
hands involved in the writing? CB's readings of A differ somewhat from mine.
Hardly Nερευς καλος. Attic alphabet.
CAVI Number: 2626
AVI Bibliography: CB (1931–63), ii, no. 10 suppl. pls. 13,2 (A, vase) and 14 (dr. of B by
Caskey). — ARV[2] (1963), 510/3. — AttScr (1990), no. 642.
CAVI / AVI Data from Henry Immerwahr's Corpus of Attic Vase Inscriptions (CAVI), updated by Rudoph Wachter's Attic Vase Inscriptions (AVI)
