Collection: Eichenzell, Museum Schloss Fasanerie (Hessische Haussstiftung)
Summary: A (upper level): Birth of ErichthoniosA (lower level): Zeus, two women, Poseidon, Eros pointing toward Erichthonios.B: Eros, Apollo (?), a female figure, perhaps Krete; Herakles lunging at the Cretan bull, crowned by Nike, Athena and another Nike
Ware: Attic Red Figure
Painter: Kekrops Painter
Context: Said to be from Sicily
Date: ca. 410 BC - ca. 400 BC
Dimensions: H. 0.575 m; max. diam. (rim) 0.53 m
Primary Citation: ARV2, 1346.1
Shape: Calyx krater
Period: High Classical

Decoration Description: A (upper level): Birth of Erichthonios: A female figure standing near profile to the right, wearing a belted chiton, a long pony tail, a stephane, dotted-disk earrings, and a beaded necklace, points her right hand to the right, and rests her left arm on the shoulder of another female figure, standing 3/4-view to the right, with her head 3/4-view to the left, wearing a chiton, a long-sleeved oriental tunic, a wreath, and hoop earrings, who rests her right hand on her hip, and reaches her left arm to an adjacent, seated female figure; a small, white, nude Eros, standing profile to the right, with his left foot raised, rests his right hand on knee, and his left hand on the shoulder of a female figure seated 3/4-view to the left, with her head profile to the right, wearing a sleeved chiton, a himation draped around her legs and over her left shoulder, a sphendone, wreath, dotted-disk earrings with pendant hoops, a beaded necklace, and three or more white bands on each wrist; Kekrops, seated 3/4-view to the right before an altar, with his scaly snake tail coiled beneath him, pointing to the left, wearing a sleeveless oriental tunic (illustrating a Nereid on a hippocamp), a himation over both forearms and his back, a mustache, and a white taenia, holds a phiale in his right hand, a lamb and branches in his left hand, and rests a scepter over his left shoulder; olive tree behind; above, a nude, red Nike (?), flying 3/4-view to the right, with frontal wings, wearing a white taenia, holds an alabastron in her right hand, and branches in her left hand; Athena, standing near frontal, with her weight on her left leg, and her head profile to the left, wearing a sleeved chiton, a himation draped over her left shoulder and wrapped around her torso, partially obscuring her gorgoneion, a stephane, a beaded necklace, and two white bands on her right wrist, holds a phiale in her lowered right hand, and a spear upright in her upraised left hand; a female figure, perhaps Attika, seated 3/4-view to the left on white strut (?), wearing a sleeved chiton with chest straps, a himation over her thighs, a beaded necklace, an olive wreath, and two white bands on each wrist, rests her left arm on a shield with a gorgon, and raises a frontal Corinthian helmet in her right hand; Hermes, standing 3/4-view to the right, wearing a chlamys bound at the front of his neck, a winged pilos, and black boots, raises his left foot on a rock, places his left hand on his knee, and holds a kerykeion up in his right hand; a tripod below; over the handle, Hephaistos, reclining 3/4-back-view to the left, wearing a himation draped around the lower body, a krobylos, and an olive wreath, holds a kerykeion in his/her left hand, and a phiale in his/her right hand; an olive tree behind; a small Eros, flying near profile to the left, wearing a wreathed, holds an olive wreath in his lowered left hand, and in his right hand an oinochoe, from which he is about to pour a libation into a phiale.

Sources Used: Reeder 1995, 264-66 no. 73 (ill.); Arafat 1990, 57, 188, no. 2.28; Boardman 1989a, fig. 334; LIMC, 4.302 s.v. Gorgo, Gorgones no 177, pl. 175 (I. Krauskopf/Dahlinger), 648 s.v. Hephaistos no. 220, pl. 403 (A. Hermary/A. Jacquemin), 930 s.v. Erechtheus no. 10, pl. 632 (U. Kron); LIMC, 3.21 s.v. Attike no. 6, fig. 15 (G. Berger-Doer), 925 s.v. Eros no. 907 (A. Hermary et al.); Add2, 368; Simon 1985, 194-95, 197, fig. 180; LIMC, 2.996-97 s.v. Athena nos. 454, 460 (P. Demargne); Simon 1983, 52-53, pl. 14.2; Neils 1983, 281, figs. 11-12; B.B. Shefton, "The Krater from Baksy," in Kurtz & Sparkes 1982, 176; LIMC, 1.287 s.v. Aglauros ... no. 8, pl. 211 (U. Kron); Brommer 1978, 21-23, 208 no. B3, pl. 17; E.B. Harrison, "Alkamenes' Sculptures for the Hephaisteion: Part II, The Base," AJA 81 (1977) 273; Floren 1977, 129 no. 88, fig. A; Simon & Hirmer 1976, figs. 226-27; Kron 1976, 61-63, 65-66, 91-92, 100, 250 no. E 11, pl. 5.1; Bérard 1974, 37; Para, 482; Simon 1969, 53; EAA 2 (1959) 450 s.v. Cecrope (G. Becatti), fig. 631; Hausmann 1959, pl. 54; J.D. Beazley, rev. of CVA, Schloss Fasanerie (Adolphseck) 1, in AJA 61 (1957) 110-111; F. Brommer, "Attische Könige," in K. Schauenburg ed., Charites. Studien zur Altertumswissenschaft (Bonn 1957) 152-64, pl. 22.1; F. Brommer, CVA, Schloss Fasanerie (Adolphseck) 1 (1956) pls. 46-48 (with previous bibliography