Decoration: A: RETURN OF HEPHAISTOS, DIONYSOS WITH THYRSOS, MAN IN SATYR TRUNKS DANCING ON PLATFORM, THEATRICAL B: YOUTHS
Last Recorded Collection: Paris, market
Publication Record: Beazley, J.D., Attic Red-Figure Vase-Painters, 2nd edition (Oxford, 1963): 1053.39 Heinemann, A., Der Gott des Gelages. Dionysos, Satyrn und Mänaden auf attischem Trinkgeschirr des 5. Jahrhunderts v. Chr. (Berlin, 2016): 243, FIG.149 (DRAWING OF A) Krumeich, R., Pechstein, N., and Seidensticker, B. (eds.), Das griechische Satyrspiel (Darmstadt, 1999): PL.28B (A) Taplin, O. and Wyles, R. (eds.), The Pronomos Vase and its Context (Oxford, 2010): 223, FIG.12.4 (A)
CAVI Lemma: RF bell krater. Group of Polygnotos. Third quarter fifth.
CAVI Subject: A: Dionysus, Hephaestus, and, on a platform, a satyr (the chorus master from
a satyr play). B: three youths.
CAVI Inscriptions: A: startung from Dionysus' mouth and stretching to the right of Hephaestus:
καλος Ηφαρστος, for Ηφαιστος{1}.
CAVI Footnotes: {1} so Tillyard, definitely not a misprint, but miswritten.
CAVI Comments: I give the inscription as one, but it is possible that καλος goes with
Dionysus and Hephaestus is simply named; the latter is what Tillyard thought,
declaring a kalos-name for Hephaestus impossible. This may be a scene from a
satyr play (Dionysus persuading Hephaestus to return to Olympus?), or it may at
least have a connection with the satyr play.
CAVI Number: 6772
AVI Bibliography: Tillyard (1923), 79/136, pl. 23 (A). — ARV[2] (1963), 1053/39.
CAVI / AVI Data from Henry Immerwahr's Corpus of Attic Vase Inscriptions (CAVI), updated by Rudoph Wachter's Attic Vase Inscriptions (AVI)
