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A Boeotian Krater in Trinity College, Cambridge
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 23 December 2013
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In the Library of Trinity College, Cambridge, there is a red-figured bell krater of Boeotian fabric (pl. iva, b). The front of the vase shows Thetis riding on a sea-horse with the shield of Achilles on her arm; on the back there is a large female head and a tendril; beneath each handle is an ivy leaf. A border of leaves in BF decorates the rim, and there are tongues round the base of the handles except at the back of one of them, where the leaf that terminates the tendril comes so close to the handle that there is hardly room for them.
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- Copyright © The Society for the Promotion of Hellenic Studies 1957
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1 Sotheby sale catalogue, June 16, 1904, no. 201, ex Margaritis. The krater was formerly in the possession of H. A. Rigg, K.C., F.S.A., and was presented to Trinity College, together with other vases, after his death by Mrs. Rigg. I am much indebted to the College Council for permission to publish it here.
2 See AJA lvii, 1953, 245 f.Google Scholar, pls. 66 f., where twelve, forming a fairly uniform group, are associated with other kraters and with vases of other shapes.
3 E.g. the New York hippocamp, AJA lvii, 1953, pl. 66, fig. 3Google Scholar; the Würzburg Scylla, Langlotz 821, pl. 238; the Argospainter's Scylla, Berlin 3413, Neugebauer, Führer, 137 Google Scholar; the sea-dragon on the Thetis painter's almond lekythos, Wolters-Bruns Kabirenheiligtum, pl. 36. 3, 4, and the Scylla (?) inside the shield on the kantharos Athens 12486 by the painter of the Great Athens Kantharos, AM lxv, 1940, pl. 20. 1.
4 Richter and Hall, Red-Figured Athenian Vases, pl. 147.