Decoration: A: PYRRHIC, WOMEN, ONE SEATED ON CHAIR PLAYING PIPES, ONE WITH HELMET, SHIELD AND SPEAR (AS ATHENA ?) BETWEEN DRAPED YOUTHS, ONE WITH STAFF, CROSS AND CAGE (?) SUSPENDED B: DRAPED YOUTHS
Last Recorded Collection: Vienna, Kunsthistorisches Museum: 732
Publication Record: Arion, A Journal of Humanities and the Classics, Boston University: 1.2 (1991) 264, FIG.2 (A) Beazley, J.D., Attic Red-Figure Vase-Painters, 2nd edition (Oxford, 1963): 1190.30 Beazley, J.D., Attische Vasenmaler des rotfigurigen Stils (Tübingen, 1925): 454.17 Ceccarelli, P., La pirrica nell'antichita greco romana, studi sulla danza armata (Pisa, 1998): PL.12.1 (A) Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum: WIEN, KUNSTHISTORISCHES MUSEUM 3, 21-22, PL.(47) 119.1.5 View Whole CVA Plates Delavaud-Roux, M-H., Les danses armees en Grece antique (Aix-en-Provence, 1993): 151, NO.51 (A) Laborde, A., Collection de vases grec de Mr. Le Comte de Lamberg (Paris, 1813-28): I, 7, FIG.5 Lenormant, C. and de Witte, J., Elite des monuments ceramographiques (1837-61): I, PL.74 Schafer, A, Unterhaltung beim griechischen Symposium (Mainz, 1997): PL.41.2 (A) Steinhart, M., Die Kunst der Nachahmung (Mainz, 2004): PL.26.2 (A) Thesaurus Cultus et Rituum Antiquorum: IV, PL.45.35B (A)
CAVI Collection: VIENNA, KUNSTHISTORISCHES MUSEUM 732.
CAVI Lemma: RF BELL KRATER. POTHOS PAINTER. END OF FIFTH (EICHLER). CA. 420 (BéRARD).
CAVI Subject: A: A SEATED GIRL PLAYING THE FLUTES AND A FEMALE PYRRHICHIST BETWEEN TWO
YOUTHS; ABOVE THE FLAUTIST, A SMALL TEMPLE FRONT;(1) FURTHER TO RIGHT, A CROSS.
B: THREE YOUTHS.
CAVI Inscriptions: A: BESIDE THE FLAUTIST: καλι. (MISWRITTEN?) OTHER INSCRIPTIONS ARE SAID TO BE
ILLEGIBLE. UNDER THE FOOT, GRR.: A LINE DIVIDES THE BOTTOM IN TWO HALVES; ON ONE
SIDE, Φ ΙΙΙΙΙΙ. ON THE OTHER: ΙΙΙΙΙ. (NUMERALS 6 AND 5.)
CAVI Footnotes: {1} CALLED A BIRD CAGE IN FORM OF A TEMPLE BY BéRARD; THIS MAKES SENSE.
CAVI Comments: LISTED IN `IMAGES' AS VIENNA I 6788. DONE FROM THE TEXT. THE INSCRIPTIONS ARE
IN WHITE. NOTES FROM BéRARD: THE PH. IN `IMAGES' SHOWS IMITATION INSCRIPTIONS:
ABOVE THE LEFT YOUTH, HORIZONTAL, AT LEAST FIVE LETTERS; TO RIGHT OF THE
FLAUTIST'S TOP OF HEAD, HORIZONTAL: AT LEAST FOUR LETTERS, THE FIRST IN SHAPE OF
A QUOTATION MARK (") [THIS IS PROBABLY THE INSCRIPTION FORMERLY READ καλι IN
CAVI]; THERE ARE ALSO TWO IMITATION LETTERS, HORIZONTAL, VISIBLE TO RIGHT OF THE
PEDIMENT OF THE BIRD CAGE, THE SECOND = "; UNDER THE CROSS AND TO LEFT OF THE
PYRRHICIST'S BACK OF HEAD, NEARLY HORIZONTAL, AN IMIATION INSCRIPTION OF 5
LETTERS; IT ENDS CLOSE TO THE YOUTH AT LEFT. THEINSCRIPTIONS SHOW ONLY VERY
FAINTLY.
CAVI Number: 7908
AVI Bibliography: FR (1904–32), III, 323 N. 8/10 (INTERPRETATION). — FEYTMANS (1948), 71 N.
2/11. — ARV[2] (1963), 1190/30. — F. EICHLER, CVA VIENNA 3, AUSTRIA 3 (1974),
PL. 119,1,5; P. 22, FACS. OF GRR. (SOME BIBL.). — BéRARD ET AL. (1984), 87, FIG.
125 (A). — ADD.[2] (1989), 342.
CAVI / AVI Data from Henry Immerwahr's Corpus of Attic Vase Inscriptions (CAVI), updated by Rudoph Wachter's Attic Vase Inscriptions (AVI)
