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)
