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)
