Attributed To: KLEOPHRADES P by CORBETT KLEOPHRADES P by EDWARDS
Decoration: OLD MAN (PHOINIX ?) AND MAN
Last Recorded Collection: Athens, Agora Museum: P20244
Publication Record: Beazley, J.D., Attic Red-Figure Vase-Painters, 2nd edition (Oxford, 1963): 185.38 Beazley, J.D., Paralipomena (Oxford, 1971): 340 The Athenian Agora, Results of Excavations conducted by the American School of Classical Studies at Athens: 30, PL.34.254
CAVI Lemma: FRS. OF RF CALYX KRATER. FROM ATHENS, AGORA D 16. KLEOPHRADES PAINTER. FIRST
QUARTER FIFTH. EARLY (ASHMEAD). CA. 490 (MOORE).
CAVI Subject: A: FR. A: HEAD OF AN OLD MAN. FR. B: BODY OF A DRAPED YOUTH{1}.
CAVI Inscriptions: A: TO LEFT OF TOP OF HEAD: Φ[--], OR Θ[--]{2}.
CAVI Footnotes: {1} NOT CERTAIN THAT BOTH FRS. ARE FROM THE SAME SIDE. {2} MOORE READS: IN
FRONT OF THE OLD (WHITE-HAIRED) MAN (WHO IS HOLDING A SPEAR), NEAR THE BREAK:
Φ[--], RETR. [SHE DOES NOT GIVE THETA, AS I HAD SUGGESTED EARLIER. THE LETTER IN
THE PH. IS ALMOST COMPLETE: CIRCULAR PHI. I THINK I CAN SEE THE INTERNAL
VERTICAL. THE EXTANT LETTER MUST HAVE A BIT OF A STROKE INSTEAD OF A DOT. MOORE
THINKS THE MAN IS PROBABLY PHOENIX AS ON THE AMPHORA WüRZBURG 508, ARV[2] 182/5,
AS TENTATIVELY SUGGESTED BY ASHMEAD AND ACCEPTED BY BEAZLEY. HE MUST HAVE BEEN
SEATED. THE FIGURE ON THE OTHER FR. MAY BE HERMES. B. DOHLE, KLIO 49 (1967) 105
THINKS FROM A MISSION TO ACHILLES; SO ALSO, BUT WITH A QUESTION MARK, BOARDMAN
(1976), 5, AND THIS LAST IS ALSO MOORE'S VIEW.
CAVI Comments: TWO FRS.
CAVI Number: 0575
AVI Bibliography: BEAZLEY (1958), 8 N. 1. — ARV[2] (1963), 185/38. — ASHMEAD (1966), 24/3, PL.
8. — PARA. (1971), 340. — MOORE (1997), 175/254, PL. 34 (BOTH FRS., THE LETTER
ON FR. A SHOWS).
CAVI / AVI Data from Henry Immerwahr's Corpus of Attic Vase Inscriptions (CAVI), updated by Rudoph Wachter's Attic Vase Inscriptions (AVI)
