Last Recorded Collection: Athens, Agora Museum: P17000
Publication Record: Hesperia, The Journal of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens: 18 (1949) PL.4 The Athenian Agora, Results of Excavations conducted by the American School of Classical Studies at Athens: 30, PL.49.391
CAVI Lemma: Fragmentary RF bell krater. From Athens. Unattributed. Ca. 400 (Moore){1}.
CAVI Subject: A: Satyr and maenad with a torch, both looking back.
CAVI Inscriptions: Grr. [[see D]]: A: above the maenad's head: Λεωνιδας. Below it, an illegible
inscription: α(ι)(.)[--]σ{2}.
CAVI Footnotes: {1} Corbett makes an argument for 400-397. {2} The sketch on Moore's p. 200
has: ΛΙ(Λ)NΙΑΑ(Σ)[--] Λ(Υ)ΑΙΟ[--]. Line 1: the third letter resembles a modern
λ; the last letter is probably four-stroke, but the bottom stroke is missing in
the break. Line 2: the second letter is av-shaped upsilon but very small. Note
that the sketch left-aligns the two lines and gives the second line the
same-size letters as the first.
CAVI Comments: C. thinks Leonidas must refer to the Spartan king of Thermopylae fame. For
the second line he suggests απατος, Doric for the epic απητος, `wonderful,
admirable' [which I cannot find in Cunliffe or LSJ] or a misspelling of απαστος
[but that means `fasting'!]. Burn (1987), ca. 34ff., mentions the Leonidas
inscription as a sign of pro-Spartan sympathies. - Mixed alphabet (three-stroke
sigma). Moore says: "For a pro-Spartan interpretation of the inscription naming
Leonidas see P.E. Corbett, Hesperia 18 (1949), pp. 104-107." [Does she think
Leonidas is represented? See Moore (1997), index vi: Λεωνι[δας].] - Burn (1987),
ca. 34ff.: mentions the Leonidas inscription as sign of pro-Spartan sympathies.
Inscriptions in white. [[These are not grr.!]]
CAVI Number: 0522
AVI Bibliography: Corbett (1949), 104-107, pl. 4,1 and 2 (detail of inscriptions). — Moore
(1997), 200/391, pl. 49.
CAVI / AVI Data from Henry Immerwahr's Corpus of Attic Vase Inscriptions (CAVI), updated by Rudoph Wachter's Attic Vase Inscriptions (AVI)
