Decoration: A1: RETURN OF HEPHAISTOS (NAMED) ON MULE, DIONYSOS (NAMED) WITH THYRSOS AND KANTHAROS, SATYRS, SOME WITH TORCHES, HERA SEATED ON CHAIR WITH SCEPTRE, FOOTSTOOL, MAENAD WITH TORCH A2: KOMOS, YOUTHS, ONE PLAYING LYRE, ONE WITH TORCH, ONE WITH STAFF
Last Recorded Collection: Athens, Agora Museum: P5107
Previous Collections:
Athens, Agora Museum: P44
Publication Record: Hesperia, The Journal of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens: 6 (1937) 47-49, FIGS.27-28 PHOTOGRAPH(S) IN THE BEAZLEY ARCHIVE: 5 (INCL. DRAWING OF PART) The Athenian Agora, Results of Excavations conducted by the American School of Classical Studies at Athens: 30, 183, FIG.19, PL.39.288 (INCLUDING DRAWING OF PART) Thompson, D.B., Garden Lore of Ancient Athens, American School of Classical Studies at Athens (Princeton, 1963): 27, FIG.46 (DRAWING OF ORNAMENT)
CAVI Lemma: Frs. of RF calyx krater. From Athens, Agora H 5 (P 44) and H 5-6 (P 5107).
Unattributed{1}. Third quarter fifth. Ca. 430 (Thompson, Moore).
CAVI Subject: A: upper zone: Return of Hephaestus: P 5107: at left, heads of satyrs;
Hephaestus on a mule to right, led by Dionysus with thyrsus and kantharos; leg
of a satyr. P 44: figure holding a thyrsus(?), with one foot on a rock, to
right; frontal figure; Hera seated to left, holding a scepter (see fig. 19).
Lower zone: komasts: hand holding a torch; youth with a lyre; both to right;
youth to left with a dipper(?).
CAVI Inscriptions: A: upper zone: starting to right of Hephaestus' forehead. horizontal and
close to top margin: hεφ[α]ιστος [[h(ε)]]{2}. Above Dionysus' head and extending
to right, in a similar position: Διωνυσ^[ος]{3}.
CAVI Footnotes: {1} so my reading from the photo, but I am not quite certain, as the picture
in Hesp. seems to show a gap of two letters and an uncertain epsilon preceding;
hence: hε̣[φα]ιστος? Thompson connected with the Eretria Painter. {2} The phs.
on Moore's pl. 39 show the heta/eta and the phi clearly, but the rest of the
letters are mostly dots. Unclear whether we have syllabic heta or Ionic eta:
Ηφ[α]ιστος, in the mixed alphabet as the sigmas are three-stroke. There is room
for more than one letter in the break but the donkey's ears probably interfered.
{3} the extant letters stop at the thyrsus held by Dionysus; to its right a
small area is preserved on which the ph. may show smudges of two letters, but I
am not certain of this and they are not indicated by Thompson or Moore. The
omega is clear: omega for omicron (AttScr (1990), 167) or epic form?
CAVI Comments: + P 5107 = CAVI 332 Two frs. Inscriptions in white. Attic or mixed
alphabet.Note the (peculiar) heta, but omega. `Syllabic' heta. Three-stroke
sigma. Add no. 332 (P 5107).
CAVI Number: 0227
AVI Bibliography: Photo. — H.A. Thompson (1937), 47-49, figs. 27-28 (P 44). — LIMC iv (1988),
638, Hephaistos 121, and 694, Hera 314. — Moore (1997), 183/288, fig. 19, pl. 39
(two phs. show inscriptions).
CAVI / AVI Data from Henry Immerwahr's Corpus of Attic Vase Inscriptions (CAVI), updated by Rudoph Wachter's Attic Vase Inscriptions (AVI)
