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)
