Attributed To:Circle of POLYGNOTOS, GROUP OF by BEAZLEY KOMARIS P by BEAZLEY
Decoration: A: NYMPH (WOMAN, NAMED) SEATED ON ROCK, FISHERMEN (NAMED) IN BOAT
Last Recorded Collection: Naples, Museo Archeologico Nazionale: 114260
Publication Record: Beazley, J.D., Attic Red-Figure Vase-Painters, 2nd edition (Oxford, 1963): 1064.2 , 1681 Beazley, J.D., Attische Vasenmaler des rotfigurigen Stils (Tübingen, 1925): 415.3 Carpenter, T.H., with Mannack, T. and Mendonca, M., Beazley Addenda, 2nd edition (Oxford, 1989): 324 Inghirami, F., Pitture di vasi fittili (Fiesole, 1835-37): PL.167 Vasi Antichi, Museo Archeologio Nazionale di Napoli (Naples 2009): 73 (COLOUR OF A) Welcker, F., Alte Denkmäler (Gottingen, 1849-64): III, PL.30.1 d'Hancarville, H., Antiquites Etrusques, Grecques et Romaines, tirees du Cabinet de M. William Hamilton (Naples, 1766-7): II, PL.27
CAVI Lemma: RF bell krater. From Apulia. Komaris Painter{1}. Third quarter fifth.
CAVI Subject: A: fishermen and a nereid: at left, a nereid seated on a rock; two fishermen
in a rowboat, one putting out the anchor; a heron(?) flying before the storm. B:
three youths.
CAVI Inscriptions: A: the nereid: Ποντια{2}. The left fisherman (the one with the anchor):
Αλιμος{3}. The right fisherman (who is rowing): Κομαρις{4}.
CAVI Footnotes: {1} "The short figures recall some of the bell-kraters of the Polygnotan
Group," Beazley. {2} personification: pontos is the open sea [Beazley oddly
speaks of the sea-shore]. Epiklesis of Thetis and Nereids; cf. Louvre E 869:
Ποντι(α). {3} the name is not found elsewhere: `belonging to the sea': a
personification. {4} Stephani read Κομμαρις and thought it miswritten for
Καμμαρις after the word for a kind of crab. But κομαρις, a fish or sea delicacy
is mentioned in Epicharmos fr. 47 Kaibel, cf. Kretschmer (1934), 103 and Hsch.,
s.v. κομμάρα ἢ κομάραι· καρίδες, Μακεδόνες.
CAVI Comments: Beazley: workmen are usually nameless; the scene is probably connected with
the unknown founder of the deme Halimous. Welcker, not knowing the inscriptions
had interpreted the scene as Odyssus Akanthoplex. Beazley's conclusions were
reached independently by Gercke and Peterson. Mixed alphabet. Ionic lambda.
Three-stroke sigma.
