Image from Svoronos
| Collection: | Athens, National Archaeological Museum |
| Summary: | Personifications of festivals and months |
| Ware: | Attic Red Figure |
| Painter: | Attributed to the Oinomaos Painter |
| Context: | Hermione |
| Date: | ca. 380 BC - ca. 370 BC |
| Dimensions: | Pres. H. 0.271 m; max. diam. (body) 0.335 m |
| Primary Citation: | |
| Shape: | Calyx krater |
| Beazley Number: | 218101 |
| Period: | Late Classical |
Decoration Description:
A (upper level): Pompai and Theoriai with seven (?) youths (Menes?), including Posideon (December-January) and Elaphebolion (March-April), probably together (only lower bodies of three standing figures preserved).
A (lower level): A white female figure, perhaps Pompe (Eiresione), standing 3/4-view to the right, with her weight on her left leg, and her right leg relaxed, wearing a red himation draped diagonally over her chest and left shoulder/arm, and a high pony tail, holds her left arm at her side, and raises in her right hand a laurel wreath with which she crowns a youth, perhaps Pyanopsion (October-November), seated 3/4-view to the left, with his legs crossed, wearing a himation over his lower legs, and a wreath over his long hair, raising his right hand, palm out (in a speaking gesture?) to "Eiresione"; in his left hand, he holds a laurel (?) branch, above which is a (waning) moon crescent; a white female figure, Pompe (perhaps a procession to Eleusis), standing 3/4-view to the right, with her weight on her left leg, and her right leg relaxed, wearing a himation around lower body and draped over her left arm, and a high pony tail, lowers her right hand at her side, and holds in her left hand a wreath aloft, although the hand, and the wreath, are curved in; a youth, perhaps Boedromion (September-October), seated 3/4-view to the right, with his head profile to the left, wearing a himation around lower body, and a laurel (?) wreath around his long hair, holds with both hands on his lap a young, white goat, standing profile to the right; a low altar; above, a (waxing) moon crescent ; a white, female figure, perhaps Theoria (neck and head missing), seated 3/4-view to the right, wearing a himation draped around her lower body, holds both bent arms aloft, to either side (missing hands and neck/head); a youth, perhaps Hekatombaion (July-August), standing 3/4-view to the right, with his weight on left leg, his right leg relaxed, leans on a staff under his left armpit, wearing a himation around his lower body, and short hair, turns his head profile to the left, rests his left hand at his side, and raises his right hand, palm out (perhaps in a speaking gesture); a female figure, perhaps Pompe (Hieros Gamos), standing 3/4-view to the right, with her weight on her left leg, her right leg relaxed, wearing a himation around lower body, and over her left arm, hangs her left hand at her side, and raises her right arm (missing above the shoulder, as is her head); a youth, perhaps Gamelion (missing the top of his head), standing 3/4-view to the left, with his weight on his right leg, and his left leg relaxed, hangs his right arm at his side, with his forefinger pointing down, and cradles in his left arm a loutrophoros, the top of which is missing; a youth, perhaps Metageition (August-September) or Maimakterion (November-December) (missing his head), seated 3/4-view to the left, with his legs crossed, wearing a himation around lower body, holds his left hand in front of his chest, just above waist level, and holds with his right hand a box (or the bottom of a vase?) on his left shoulder; at least two missing figures.
B: Perhaps a male figure (only left forearm and knee preserved), seated 3/4-view to the right, holding his left hand, palm out, above his lap.
Sources Used: JdI 80 (1965) 105-13, 116-23, figs. 1-4, 11; S. Karouzou in ArchDelt 19 A (1964) 1-16 figs. 1-2, pls. 1-4;