Return of the Athlete – Attic Krater

            The krater has a flat lip with a slightly oblique cut, a low neck, vertical handles, a slightly compressed globular body, and a sucker foot. Under the handles there are two large, wide-open eyes. Between the handles are two metope panels, vertically limited by two ivy shoots and, at the top, by polychrome tabs dotted in white and an anthemion with ribbons of palmettes and lotus flowers.
The figurative scene is framed between a pair of backward-looking sphinxes, with one paw raised. The first of the two panels shows six beardless youths. Four of them are wrapped in a cloak and hold a spear; two youths are naked with a cloak on their left arm. The second scene is composed of five characters. The figure of the first naked youth is suppressed, and the scene is centered on the youth who wears the cloak like a stole on his forearms, and advances towards the right, framed by pairs of armed men wrapped in banded himatia dotted with flowers. This is a vase  of Attic production with Corinthian influences. The constriction of the scenes in closed metope spaces, the type and position of the anthemion, the large eyes under the handles, and the content of the painted scenes refer to Attic productions including the Siana cups, by Painter C, and the cups of the Little Masters. The Siana cups by the Taranto Painter help to resolve the meaning of the scenes painted on this krater. They may be included in the iconographic group of the so-called "return of the athlete", where a young man, usually naked with a cloak, sometimes greets cloaked figures that close the sides of the scene, flanked or replaced by female characters and winged figures.

Source: Museo Archeologico dei Campi Flegrei – Vol. 1 – Cuma

Attic black-figure krater
Height 28.7 cm; diameter 29.7-30.5 cm
Second quarter of the 6th century BC
Cumae, Northern Necropolis - Cremation tomb (Gabrici CVI)
Museo Archeologico dei Campi Flegrei –  Inv. 127870


   

Taken on: October 6, 2024

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