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Among the fairly numerous Boeotian kantharoi with decoration in applied white on black there is a small class of mid-fifth century date, some painted with a garland only, others with figures. My husband drew attention to this small group nearly forty years ago when discussing the undecorated black kantharoi of this shape found at Rhitsona. He knew three vases with figures. The first was the well-known kantharos in Brussels published originally by Graindor and now appearing again in the third fascicule of the Belgian section of the Corpus Vasorum. On each side is a σκευοφόρος carrying on his shoulder a yoke from which two baskets are suspended. The painter has shown us the contents of one of the baskets. It is a consignment of pottery—two kantharoi, six kylikes, and two plates are visible. The vase thus provides an apt illustration of the φορτίον that the Boeotian in the Acharnians might have taken back from Athens and of the sycophant's uncomfortable mode of travel. The second, in the Römisch-Germanisches Museum in Cologne, shows a hoplite advancing.
1 Ure, P. N.Black Glaze Pottery from Rhitsona 39 n. 1.Google Scholar
2 REA VII (1905) 325 f. pl. V.
3 Cinquantenaire A1683, CV Brussels III III G pl. 5. 2 a and b.
4 See the drawing op. cit. 5.
5 Aristophanes Ach. 900 f.
6 Inv. 22160; formerly in the Wallraf-Richartz Museum, no. 57.
7 Inv. no. 1907. 5–18. 3. Height to rim 0·15 m. My thanks are due to the Trustees of the British Museum for permission to publish this vase.
8 Inv. no. 38. iv. 9. Height to rim 0·145 m.
9 The white paint has flaked off the right arm and the boot flaps of Hermes and off a good deal of the caduceus.
10 For ‘onlookers’ see Haspels, ABL p. 151.Google Scholar
11 I am much indebted to Professor A. Rumpf and also to Dr. Fremersdorf, Director of the Römisch-Germanisches Museum, Cologne, for very kindly searching out all the information available about this vase.
12 See Wolters-Bruns Das Kabirenheiligtum bei Theben passim.
13 CV Brussels III 5 where this provenance is queried.
14 Ure, Sixth and Fifth Century Pottery from Rhitsona 36.Google Scholar
16 Ibid. pl. IX 7. For the shape of kantharos predominant in the polyandrion of the Thespians who fell at Delium in 424 B.C. cf. no. 7 from the Rhitsona grave 123 Sixth and Fifth pl. X.
17 ABL 189.
18 Sixth and Fifth 81.
19 See above p. 194.
20 AJA XLVIII (1944) 123 fig. 2.
21 Haspels, ABL pl. 45. 2.Google Scholar
22 AM XXX (1905) 207 fig. 1.
23 E.g. Haspels op. cit. pl. 45. 1.
24 CV II pl. 84. 8, 9 and pl. 85. 4, 5.
25 Wolters-Bruns op. cit. pll. 5–8.
26 For an inscription painted to order cf. the kantharos fragment painted in white with the dedication in Ionic lettering … 
Wolters-Bruns op. at. 54, no. 143.
27 E.g. op. cit. pl. 5.
28 See also Sardis VII 1 p. 67 and the references there given.
29 CIG II 2880–2882; cf. Kern Pauly-Wissowa RE s.v. ‘Kabeiros’ 1445.
30 Bergk Poet. Lyr. Gr. 589.
31 It is a question whether κοεης is an Ionic form of κοης or a Boeotian form of κοιης. Cf. 
on the stone in Roehl, TanagraInscriptions Graecae Antiquissimae 50Google Scholar, no. 157 (a reference that I owe to Miss L. H. Jeffery). The Ionic lettering would seem to indicate Ionic rather than Boeotian dialect.
32 Strabo X 3 15; cf. also the Kabarnoi, priests of Demeter on Paros, RE s.v. Καβαρνοι.
33 Loc. cil.
34 AJA XVII 364.
35 Hdt. II 51; Aristoph. Pax 277 f.
36 Wolters-Bruns op. cit. pl. 28. 1, 37. 2.
37 Op. cit. pl. 51. 6.
38 Schol. Ap. Rhod. I 917 (FHG III 154 no. 27) quoting Mnaseas and Dionysodorus. See also the table Daremberg-Saglio, Dictionnaire 762.Google Scholar
39 Strabo VII 3 6.
40 Cf. Diod. Sic. V 47. 3 (speaking of the Samothracians) 
41 Kern RE s.v. ‘Kadmilos’ 1459.
42 For the fullest and most recent discussion of κοης and kindred words see Masson, ‘Lydien Kaves (κσυης)’ in Jahrb. für kleinasiatische Forschung I (1950) 182 f.Google Scholar, which appeared after this article was written. For this reference, and for others also, I have to thank Mr. Peter Fraser.
