Two non-joining wall fragments, a with start of return, unglazed on inside. Max. dim. a) 0.104, b) 0.024. LIMC IV, 1988, p. 929, no. 5, s.v. Erechtheus.

Athena and Hephaistos. Fragment a preserves Athena (part of high-crested helmet, aegis, left forearm with sleeve of chiton) and Hephaistos (most of wreathed head, body to hips clad in a chiton and himation, nearly all of right arm, upper part of left), each to left. The object just above the lower break and overlapping Hephaistos slightly is the blade of an axe held in his left hand (now missing). The horizontal lines of glaze painted across Athena's helmet crest are the lower border for the ornament above the figures. Fragment b preserves the top of the forehead of a goddess to right, wearing a stephane. At the very top of this fragment is a horizontal relief line that indicates the beginning of the upper border. It is unclear if the two fragments come from the same side of the vase. Relief contour. White (flaked): four small spikes(?) projecting from rim of stephane.

Brommer (Hephaistos, p. 23) raises the possibility that the theme on 67 is the Birth of Erechthonios, a scene in which Hephaistos appears, but not with his double axe, an instrument better suited to the Birth of Athena. Rather, in illustrations of the Birth of Erechthonios he holds a phiale and tongs or sometimes just a staff or scepter (for the possibilities, see LIMC IV, 1988, pp. 928--931, s.v. Erechtheus [U. Kron]). In one scene, a fragmentary bell-krater in Salonika, 272 (LIMC IV, p. 931, no. 17), where the identification of the scene is not completely ascertained, although probable, Hephaistos holds out a crucible (best seen in AAA 5, 1972, p. 453, fig. 2). Brommer's cautious suggestion that the figure on b is Gaia is untenable because in the 5th century, Gaia emerges from the earth and the figure on fragment b is too high in the composition (for the iconography of Gaia see LIMC IV, 1988, pp. 171--177, s.v. Ge [M. B. Moore], esp. pp. 173--176 for the 5th-century representations). A better possibility is that the subject may be the Wedding of Peleus and Thetis. Compare the two deities on the cup in Athens by Euphronios, Athens, N.M. 15214 = Akropolis 176 (ARV2 17, 18; Addenda 153; Euphronios, cat. no. 44). The best illustration of this detail is Brommer, Hephaistos, pl. 15:2.

Earlier Mannerists, viii: Undetermined (ARV2 588, 87: the number incorrectly cited as P 13411).