Decoration: A: TRIPTOLEMOS DEPARTING ON WINGED CHAIR WITH SNAKES, DEMETER WITH SHEAF OF CORN, PERSEPHONE WITH TORCH B: IACCHOS OR DIONYSOS WITH SCEPTRE, GODDESS
Last Recorded Collection: Athens, National Museum: 11037
Previous Collections:
Athens, National Museum: CC1939
Publication Record: Beazley, J.D., Attic Red-Figure Vase-Painters, 2nd edition (Oxford, 1963): 1475.8 Clinton, K., Myth and Cult, The Iconography of the Eleusinian Mysteries (Stockholm, 1992): 200, FIG.63 Hesperia, The Journal of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens: 76.1 (2007) 125, FIG.15 (A) Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae: IV, PL.25, EUMOLPOS 14 (PART OF A) Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae: IV, PL.592, DEMETER 397 (A) Papanastasiou, A., Relations Between Redfigured and Black-glazed Vases in Athens of the 4th Century B.C., BAR International Series 1297 (Oxford, 2004): PL.91.1 (A) Valavanis, P.D., Panathina i koi Amphoreis apo tin Eretria, Symvoli stin Attiki Angeiographia tou 4ou p.Ch.Al. (Athens, 1991): PL.118 (A,B)
CAVI Lemma: RF skyphos. From Eleusis. Marsyas Painter. Second or third quarter fourth.
CAVI Subject: A: Triptolemos. B: At left, Iakchos or Dionysus; at right, goddess; the
middle is missing.
CAVI Inscriptions: On the rim of A, in gilded applied clay: Δημητρια Δημητ̣[ρι ανεθηκεν]. On B,
similar: Δημητρια [Δημητρι ανεθ]ηκεν. Both inscriptions neatly spaced between
the handles.
CAVI Comments: Ionic alphabet. Large neat letters, some with curved strokes.
CAVI Number: 0865
AVI Bibliography: Dörpfeld (1895), 232 (not ill.). — Collignon–Couve (1902–4), no. 1939, pl. 52
(part of A). — ARV[2] (1963), 1475/8. — AttScr (1990), no. 824.
CAVI / AVI Data from Henry Immerwahr's Corpus of Attic Vase Inscriptions (CAVI), updated by Rudoph Wachter's Attic Vase Inscriptions (AVI)
