Attributed To:Related to CLIO P by BEAZLEY KASSEL P by BEAZLEY
Decoration: A: KADMOS, WITH STONE, SPEAR AND HYDRIA, SNAKE, WOMAN (NYMPH ?) B: ATHENA AND HERMES
Last Recorded Collection: New York (N.Y.), Metropolitan Museum: 1922.139.11
Previous Collections:
New York (N.Y.), Metropolitan Museum: 22.139.11
Publication Record: Antike Kunst: 31 (1988), PL.3.4 (A) Beazley, J.D., Attic Red-Figure Vase-Painters, 2nd edition (Oxford, 1963): 1083.5, 1682 Gigante, M. et al., Modi e funzioni del racconto mitico nella ceramica Greca, Italiota ed Etrusca dal VI al IV secolo A.C. (Salerno, 1995): 227, FIG.3 (A) Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae: IV, PL.239, HARMONIA 4 (A) Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae: V, PL.254, HERMES 673 (A) Rodriguez Perez, D., Serpientes, dioses y heroes. El combate contra el monstruo en el arte y la literatura griega antigua (Leon, 2008): 190, FIG.110 (A) Shapiro, H.A., Personifications in Greek Art, The Representation of Abstract Concepts 600-400 BC (Zurich, 1993): 99, FIG.51 (A)
CAVI Lemma: RF bell krater. Cassel Painter. Third quarter fifth. Ca. 440.
CAVI Subject: A: Cadmus and the snake. B: Hermes and Athena.
CAVI Inscriptions: A: above Cadmus' head and on its right: καλος (all letters are
idiosyncratic){1}. To left of Harmonia's face, at some distance: καλη(.),
retr.{2}. Under the foot: Gr. τι[μα] in the Cypriote syllabary.
CAVI Footnotes: {1} the letters could also be interpreted as [Κ]αδμος, although I thought
this unlikely when I saw the vase. The writing seems almost cursive. {2} there
is the beginning of a diagonal stroke after καλη. There is also a dot after the
alpha, which is probably accidental.
