Il cosiddetto cratere di Partenopeo del Civico Museo Archeologico di Milano

The paper reconsiders a calyx crater (Milan Archaeological Museum, St. Inv. 6873) which is ascribed to the Lycurgus Painter and so is dated to the first half of the 4th c.BCE. The vase appeared on the Milan antiquities market at auction in 1963, without any indication of provenance. In spite of this, new researches has linked it to the Peucetia area of Apulia. We will analyse the iconography of the depictions on both sides of the crater in order to establish a possible theatrical medium between the myth and the vase depiction, and to attempt an iconological reading of the scenes. Lastly, we hypothesize a possible context for the vase and its message.