CAVI Lemma: RF BELL KRATER. KOMARIS PAINTER. THIRD QUARTER FIFTH.
CAVI Subject: A: A YOUNG THESEUS PURSUING AN UNIDENTIFIED WOMAN; AT LEFT A FEMALE
COMPANION, FLEEING. B: THREE DRAPED YOUTHS, TWO OF THEM WITH STICKS.
CAVI Inscriptions: A: CENTERED ABOVE THESEUS' HEAD AND VERY CLOSE TO IT: Θεσευς.
CAVI Comments: THESEUS IS THE READING ACCEPTED BY BEAZLEY IN JHS AND CB; IT WAS ORIGINALLY
THE READING OF POTTIER AND HEYDEMANN (SEE CVA). CVA, HOWEVER READ: (π)ε(λ)ϝυς,
I.E. (Π)ελευς, CHANGING THE SUBJECT TO THE PURSUIT OF THETIS BY PELEUS. IT IS NO
DOUBT AN EARLY AMATORY EXPLOIT OF THESEUS, OF WHICH THERE ARE MANY.
CAVI Number: 6545
AVI Bibliography: PHOTO (A). — E. POTTIER, CVA LOUVRE 4, FRANCE 5 (1926), III I D, PL. 23,1,3.
— BEAZLEY (1927B), 147. — CB (1931–63), II, 81. — ARV[2] (1963), 1064/6.
CAVI / AVI Data from Henry Immerwahr's Corpus of Attic Vase Inscriptions (CAVI), updated by Rudoph Wachter's Attic Vase Inscriptions (AVI)
