Decoration: TRIPTOLEMOS, DEMETER (NAMED), WOMAN WITH PHIALE
Last Recorded Collection: Athens, Agora Museum: P14729
Publication Record: Beazley, J.D., Attic Red-Figure Vase-Painters, 2nd edition (Oxford, 1963): 589.2 The Athenian Agora, Results of Excavations conducted by the American School of Classical Studies at Athens: 30, 172, FIG.15, PLS.32-33.238 (INCLUDING DRAWING)
CAVI Lemma: Frs. of RF volute krater. From Athens, Agora B 15. Altamura Painter. Second
quarter fifth. Ca. 460 (Moore).
CAVI Subject: Triptolemos: fr. a: at left, flames of torch shouldered by Demeter (who is on
fr. b); at right, top of Zeus' head (or Triptolemos'?)to left. Fr. b (which
continues the scene on A on the left): at right, head and shoulders of Demeter
to left; at left, parts of scepter, branch and phiale held by a lost
Triptolemos. Fr. c has some ornament and part of Athena. Fr. d (not ill.): foot,
part of chiton and uncertain remains.
CAVI Inscriptions: Fr. a: above Zeus' head, horizontal : Ζ[ευς]. To Zeus' left and to left of
the top of the torch, once starting to right of Demeter's head, also horizontal:
[Δε]μετερ{1}.
CAVI Footnotes: {1} Both inscriptions show in the ph. of fr. a in Moore (1997), pl. 32 and in
Fig. 15 which is a composite dr. of frs. a and b showing the inscriptions.
CAVI Comments: Frs. a - d. Moore, p. 171, corrects Schwartz' errors in the description of
frs. a and b: the head facing left is not Triptolemos but Zeus. Schwarz omits
the inscriptions. [Hayashi must also be wrong.] For the appearance of Zeus and
Athena in this scene see Moore. Inscriptions in red. Tailed rho.
CAVI Number: 0486
AVI Bibliography: Photo. — ARV[2] (1963), 589/2. — G. Schwarz (1987), 116 V 74, pl. 10/17a-b. —
Prange (1989), 157/A 2. — Schleiffenbaum (1991), 323/V 200. — Hayashi (1992),
142/59 (not ill.). — Moore (1997), 171/238, fig. 15 (dr. showing inscriptions),
pls. 32-33 (frs. a-c).
CAVI / AVI Data from Henry Immerwahr's Corpus of Attic Vase Inscriptions (CAVI), updated by Rudoph Wachter's Attic Vase Inscriptions (AVI)
