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)
