Decoration: A: RETURN OF HEPHAISTOS, WITH AXE, DIONYSOS WITH DRINKING HORN, SATYRS, ONE LEOPARD SKIN WITH PIPES AND PIPESCASE, ONE WITH HAMMER, BELL KRATER AND DRINKING HORN, MAENAD WITH KROTALA B: MEN, ONE DRAPED, YOUTHS WITH SKYPHOS, LYRE, CUPS AND STAFF I: HERA, SEATED ON THRONE, WITH PHIALE AND LOTUS SCEPTRE, PROMETHEUS WITH SCEPTRE (BOTH NAMED)
Last Recorded Collection: Paris, Cabinet des Medailles: 542
Publication Record: Beazley, J.D., Attic Red-Figure Vase-Painters, 2nd edition (Oxford, 1963): 438.133, 1653 Beazley, J.D., Attische Vasenmaler des rotfigurigen Stils (Tübingen, 1925): 207.108 Beazley, J.D., Paralipomena (Oxford, 1971): 375 Buitron-Oliver, D., Douris, A Master-Painter of Athenian Red-Figure Vases (Mainz, 1995): PLS.100 & 145, NO.178 (I, A, B) Burn, L. and Glynn, R., Beazley Addenda (Oxford, 1982): 117 Carpenter, T.H., with Mannack, T. and Mendonca, M., Beazley Addenda, 2nd edition (Oxford, 1989): 239 Heinemann, A., Der Gott des Gelages. Dionysos, Satyrn und Mänaden auf attischem Trinkgeschirr des 5. Jahrhunderts v. Chr. (Berlin, 2016): 125, FIG.64 (A) International Congress of Classical Archaeology, 12, Athens, 1983. Praktika, 2-3 Tou XII Diethnous Synedriou Klasikes Archaiologias, Athena, 4-10 Sep: VOL.C, PL.60.1 (I) Isler-Kerenyi, C., Dionysos in Classical Athens. An Understanding through Images (Leiden and Boston, 2014): 58, FIG.30 (DRAWING OF A) Kéi, N., L'esthétique des fleurs, kosmos, poikilia et kharis dans la céramique attique du VIe et du Ve siècle av. n. ère, ICON 22 (Berlin and Boston, 2022): 2, 526, PL.43 (I, COLOUR OF I) Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae: IV, PL.400, HEPHAISTOS 169B (A), PL.425, HERA 347 (I) Lissarrague, F., Greek Vases, The Athenians and their Images (2001): 146, FIG.110 (COLOUR OF I) Monumenti inediti pubblicati dall'Instituto di Corrispondenza Archeologica (Rome, 1829-91): V, PL.35 Osborne, R., The Transformation of Athens Painted Pottery and the Creation of Classical Greece (Princeton and Oxford, 2018): 190, FIG.8.1 (A) Villanueva Puig, M-C. et al., Dossier, Des vases pour les Atheniens, VIe-IVe siecle avant notre ere. Metis 12 (2014): 287, FIG.1 (I)
CAVI Lemma: RF cup. From Vulci. Douris. Python, potter. 480-470. Late (Beazley). Late
period (Buitron-Oliver).
CAVI Subject: Int.: Hera and Prometheus. A: Return of Hephaestus. B: komos.
CAVI Inscriptions: Int.: to right of Hera's face: hερα [[h(ε)]]. To right of Prometheus' head
and shoulder, along the margin: Προμεθ(ε)ς{1}. Under the foot, Gr.: monogram and
ΛΛΙR{2}.
CAVI Footnotes: {1} the second epsilon unclear in the photo. {2} see the facs. in cat. Not in
Johnston (1979).
CAVI Comments: For the subjects, Beazley refers to Simon (1953), 90. Syllabic heta.
Cartwheel theta. - Threatte (1980), 46 reads ΗΡΑ, after Hoppin (1919), i,
285/84, and explains it as h[ε]ρα (carelessness).