CAVI Lemma: RF bell krater. Pothos Painter. Third quarter fifth.
CAVI Subject: A: Dionysiac scene: bearded satyr, seated and playing flutes; maenad with
thyrsus; boy satyr dancing; maenad with burning torch; above the flutes,
wineskin hung up. B: three youths.
CAVI Inscriptions: A: nonsense: imitation inscriptions. The ph. shows 3 letters above the
flautist; 5 letters above the flutes (following them); 4 letters above the
dancing satyr; 3 letters above the woman with the torch. There may be more (by
the wineskin? Above the thyrsus-carrier?). Under foot, Gr.: cross-bun theta
(facs., p. 132).
CAVI Comments: The blots are typical of the Pothos Painter, cf. Vienna 873, London
1920.6-13.2, Agora P 1052 and Port Sunlight.
CAVI Number: 4892
AVI Bibliography: Photo. — Alvarez-Ossorio (1910), pl. 13,1 (A). — Leroux (1912), 131/219, pl.
33, l (shows location of inscriptions). — J.R. Mélida, CVA Madrid 2, Spain 2
(1944), III I D, pl. 14,1. — ARV[2] (1963), 1189/10. — Queyrel (1984), 131, fig.
13 (A). — Add.[2] (1989), 142.
CAVI / AVI Data from Henry Immerwahr's Corpus of Attic Vase Inscriptions (CAVI), updated by Rudoph Wachter's Attic Vase Inscriptions (AVI)
