Decoration: A: YOUTH WITH KITHARA, MEN AND YOUTH WITH STAFFS, ONE SEATED ON CHAIR (JUDGE ?), ALL DRAPED B: DRAPED YOUTHS, ONE WITH STAFF, WRITING TABLETS SUSPENDED
Last Recorded Collection: New York (N.Y.), Metropolitan Museum: 21.88.73
Publication Record: American Journal of Archaeology: 27 (1923) 284 (A) Beazley, J.D., Attic Red-Figure Vase-Painters, 2nd edition (Oxford, 1963): 1029.20 Beazley, J.D., Attic Red-Figure Vase-Painters, 2nd edition (Oxford, 1963): 1602 Beazley, J.D., Attische Vasenmaler des rotfigurigen Stils (Tübingen, 1925): 392.13 Carpenter, T.H., with Mannack, T. and Mendonca, M., Beazley Addenda, 2nd edition (Oxford, 1989): 317 Matheson, S.B., Polygnotos and Vase Painting in Classical Athens (Madison, 1995): 62, PL.47 (A) Panofka, T., Bilder antiken Lebens (Berlin, 1843): PL.4.6 (A)
CAVI Lemma: RF bell krater. Polygnotos. Third quarter fifth. Ca. 450-440.
CAVI Subject: A: citharode with two men and a youth. B: three youths.
CAVI Inscriptions: A: between the head of the man at left and the back of the citharode's head:
καλος. Above the seated man and to left of the youth's face, horizontally in two
lines: Nικομα[χο]ς | κ[α]λος.
CAVI Comments: The restoration Nικομα[χο]ς is Beazley's; see ARV[2] 1602, where the name
Nikomachos is cited from a stamnos in Villa Giulia 3584, also by Polygnotos
(ARV[2] 1028/15). [This is probably an error for London E 454, ARV[2] 1028/14.]
Beazley also points out that the missing alpha in κ[α]λος is thought to be
behind a spear. Disjointed letters and miswritten inscriptions.
CAVI Number: 5623
AVI Bibliography: Richter (1923), 283 ff. — Richter–Hall (1936), i, 158/126, pls. 125, 129 and
171. — ARV[2] (1963), 1029/20, 1602. — Add.[2] (1989), 317. — AttScr (1990), no.
756. — Matheson (1995), 61, *280 and n. 57, 351/P22, pl. 47.
CAVI / AVI Data from Henry Immerwahr's Corpus of Attic Vase Inscriptions (CAVI), updated by Rudoph Wachter's Attic Vase Inscriptions (AVI)
