Decoration: A: HYPNOS AND THANATOS (BOTH NAMED) CARRYING THE BODY OF SARPEDON B: MISSION TO ACHILLES, PHOINIX (?), ODYSSEUS AND ACHILLES SEATED, AJAX (?), SWORD AND SHIELD SUSPENDED, LEOPARD SKIN ON STOOL Frieze below A: SATYRS, ONE WITH DRINKING HORN AND WINESKIN, DANCING, KOMOS Frieze below B: YOUTHS, ONE WITH PIPES, ONE WITH DRINKING HORN AND STAFF, KOMOS
Last Recorded Collection: Paris, Musée du Louvre: G163
Publication Record: Annali dell'Istituto di Correspondenza Archeologica: 1858, PL.P Arts in Virginia: 23.3.1983, 34, FIG.14 (A) Beazley, J.D., Attic Red-Figure Vase-Painters, 2nd edition (Oxford, 1963): 227.12 Beazley, J.D., Attic Red-figure Vase-painters, 1st ed. (Oxford, 1942): 154.11 Beazley, J.D., Attische Vasenmaler des rotfigurigen Stils (Tübingen, 1925): 94.11, 470 Beazley, J.D., Paralipomena (Oxford, 1971): 347 Beihefte zum Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum Deutschland: IV (2009) 137, FIG.4 (A) Boardman, J., Athenian Red Figure Vases (London, 1975): FIG.166 (B) Burn, L. and Glynn, R., Beazley Addenda (Oxford, 1982): 99 Carpenter, T.H., with Mannack, T. and Mendonca, M., Beazley Addenda, 2nd edition (Oxford, 1989): 199 Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum: PARIS, LOUVRE 1, III.IC.5, III.IC.6, PLS.(46,47) 8.1-4, 9.1-3 View Whole CVA Plates Das Altertum: 16 (1970) 32 (B) Encyclopedie photographique de l'art, Musee du Louvre (Paris, 1937): III, 16-17 Hyatt, S. (ed.), The Greek Vase (New York, 1981): FIG.74 (A) Jahrbuch des Deutschen Archäologischen Instituts: 115 (2000) 311, FIG.28 (B) Johansen, F., Iliaden i tidlig graesk kunst (Copenhagen, 1934): FIG.28 (B) Knittlmayer, B., Die Attische Demokratie und ihre Helden, Darstellungen des trojanischen Sagenkreises im 6. und frühen 5. Jh.v.Chr. (Heidelberg, 1997): PL.16.2 (A) Knittlmayer, B., Die Attische Demokratie und ihre Helden, Darstellungen des trojanischen Sagenkreises im 6. und frühen 5. Jh.v.Chr. (Heidelberg, 1997): PL.2.2 (B) Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae: I, PL.105, ACHILLEUS 448 (B) Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae: VII, PL.521, SARPEDON 6 (A) Metropolitan Museum Journal: 22 (1987), 9, FIG.5 (PART OF A) Monumenti inediti pubblicati dall'Instituto di Corrispondenza Archeologica (Rome, 1829-91): 6-7, PL.21 Müller, F.G.J.M., Iconological Studies in Roman Art (Amsterdam, 1994): II, FIG.46 (B) Oakley, J.H. and Palagia, O. (eds.), Athenian Potters and Painters, Volume II (Oxford, 2010): 125, FIGS.1-2 (B, B2, A, A2) Peifer, E., Eidola und andere mit dem Sterben verbundene Flügelwesen in der attischen Vasenmalerei in spätarchaischer und klassischer Zeit (Frankfurt, 1989): PL.9.19 (A) Pottier, E., Vases antiques du Louvre (Paris, 1897-1922): PL.124 Recke, M., Gewalt und Leid, Das Bild des Krieges bei den Athenern im 6. und 5. Jh. v. Chr. (Istanbul, 2002): PL.43C (A) Schmidt, S. and Tsingarida, A. (eds.), Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum Belgique, Supplément 1. The Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum 1922-2022, A Century of Exploring Greek Vases: Typologies, Readings and Debates (Contents), CVA Belgique (Brussels, 2024): 46, FIG.8B (COLOUR OF PART OF A) Sechan, L., Etudes sur la tragedie grecque dans ses rapports avec la ceramique (Paris, 1926): 15, FIG.2 (PART OF A, DRAWING) Shapiro H.A., Myth into Art, Poet and Painter in Classical Athens (London, 1994): 18-20, FIGS.9-10 (A, B) Shapiro, H.A., Personifications in Greek Art, The Representation of Abstract Concepts 600-400 BC (Zurich, 1993): 140, FIG.94 (A) Spivey, N., The Sarpedon Krater, The Life and Afterlife of a Greek Vase (Chicago, 2018): 152, FIG.40 (DRAWING OF A) Vermeule, E., Aspects of Death in Early Greek Art and Poetry (Berkeley, 1979): 150, FIG.3 (PART OF A) Vogt, E., Griechische Literatur, Neues Handbuch der Literaturwissenschaft 2 (Wiesbaden, 1981): 33 (B) Willinghöfer, H., Thanatos, Die Darstellung des Todes in der griechischen Kunst der archaischen und klassischen Zeit (Marburg, 1996): FIG.7 (DRAWING OF A)
CAVI Lemma: RF CALYX KRATER. FROM CERVETERI. EUCHARIDES PAINTER. EARLY FIFTH.
CAVI Subject: A: FRAGMENTARY: HYPNOS AND THANATOS WITH THE BODY OF SARPEDON. B: THE MISSION
TO ACHILLES. ON THE CUL: A: SATYRS. B: KOMOS.
CAVI Inscriptions: A: Ολυτ[τ]ευς. THE LEFT CARRIER: Hυπνος. Διομεδες, RETR. SARPEDON{1}.
CAVI Footnotes: {1} LANGRIDGE SAYS SHE COULD NOT SEE THIS NAME.
CAVI Comments: + 5 FRS. IN THE LOUVRE. ADD.[2] SAYS: "CLEANED, THE INSCRIBED NAME OF
SARPEDON RECOVERED, AND THE FRAGMENTS FOUND BY BEAZLEY INSERTED." (NO DOUBT
REFERRING TO BOTHMER'S PUBLICATION). SEE BOTHMER 1992: PANOFKA HAD READ SARPEDON
AND HYPNOS: THESE READINGS WERE CONFIRMED ONLY IN 1979; SEE BOTHMER IN HYATT. IS
THANATOS NOT INSCRIBED?
CAVI Number: 6494
AVI Bibliography: E. LANGRIDGE (BY LETTER). — BEAZLEY (1911–12), 224/32 AND 232. — ARV[2]
(1963), 227/12 (MUCH BIBL.). — PARA. (1971), 347. — BOTHMER (1981), 73-74 AND
NN. 13-14, POSTSCRIPT P. 80, 227 N. 12, FIG. 74 (A). — LIMC I (1981), 10,
ACHILLEUS 448. — BOTHMER (1987), 9, FIG. 5. — ADD.[2] (1989), 199. — BOTHMER
(1992), 13-14 AND N. 10. — SHAPIRO (1993), 248/74, 140-42, 140, FIG. 94 (A).
CAVI / AVI Data from Henry Immerwahr's Corpus of Attic Vase Inscriptions (CAVI), updated by Rudoph Wachter's Attic Vase Inscriptions (AVI)