Decoration: A: EROTIC, YOUTH KNEELING, MASTURBATING, HANDING CALYX KRATER TO RECLINING NAKED WOMAN WITH HEADDRESS B: EROTIC, NAKED WOMAN MASTURBATING YOUTH I: SATYR WITH KANTHAROI
Last Recorded Collection: Malibu (CA), The J. Paul Getty Museum: 80.AE.31
Previous Collections:
Switzerland, private
Publication Record: Antike Welt: 1988, SONDERNUMMER, 57, FIG.91 (A, B) Beazley, J.D., Attic Red-Figure Vase-Painters, 2nd edition (Oxford, 1963): 1620.12BIS Carpenter, T.H., with Mannack, T. and Mendonca, M., Beazley Addenda, 2nd edition (Oxford, 1989): 155 Christiansen, J. and Melander, T., Proceedings of the 3rd Symposium on Ancient Greek and Related Pottery, Copenhagen 31.8.-4.9.87 (Copenhagen, 1988): 210, FIGS.13-14 (A, B) Cohen, B. (ed.), Not the Classical Ideal, Athens and the Construction of the Other in Greek Art (Leiden, Boston and Köln, 2000): 198, FIG.7.8 (A) Dierichs, A., Erotik in der Kunst Griechenlands (Mainz, 2008): 74-75, FIG.54A-B (COLOUR OF A AND B) Frel, J., Greek Portraits in the J. Paul Getty Museum (Malibu, 1981): 7, FIG.14 (PART OF B) Greek Vases in the J.Paul Getty Museum: 4 (1989) 90, FIGS.3A-C (A, B) Halperin, D.M., One hundred years of homosexuality, and other essays on Greek love (London, 1990): 89 (A, B) Huf, L., Frauen jenseits der Konvention, Alterszüge, Tätowierungen und afrikanische Physiognomien im Frauenbild attischer Vasen des 5. Jahrhunderts v. Chr. (Munich, 2018): 64-65, FIGS.22.1-6 (COLOUR OF A, B AND PARTS OF A AND B) Keuls, E.C., Painter and Poet in Ancient Greece, Iconography and the Literary Arts (Stuttgart and Leipzig, 1997): 408, FIGS.65-66 (A, B) Kilmer, M.F., Greek Erotica on Attic Red-Figure Vases (London, 1993): PL. AT 146, R47.1 (A, B) Lambert, S.D. (ed.), Sociable Man, Essays on ancient Greek social behaviour, in honour of Nick Fisher (Swansea, 2011): 353, FIG.6 (A) Matheson, S.B. and Pollitt, J.J., Old Age in Greek and Roman Art (Yale, 2022): 151, FIG.85 (COLOUR OF A AND B) Mediterranean Archaeology: 12 (1999) PL.3.5 (A) Moon, W.G. (ed.), Ancient Greek Art and Iconography (Madison, 1983): 150, FIG.10.5A-B (PARTS OF A & B) Oakley, J.H. and Palagia, O. (eds.), Athenian Potters and Painters, Volume II (Oxford, 2010): 195, FIG.10 (PART OF A) PHOTOGRAPH(S) IN THE BEAZLEY ARCHIVE: 3 (A, B, I) Pfisterer-Haas, S., Darstellungen alter Frauen in der griechischen Kunst (Frankfurt, 1989): 199-200, FIGS.72-73 (A, B) Sanchez-Fernandez, C. et al. (eds.), Dioses, heroes y atletas. La imagen del cuerpo en la Grecia antigua (Madrid, 2015): 196, FIG.6 (A) Steinhart, M., Das Motiv des Auges in der griechischen Bildkunst (Mainz, 1995): PL.31.1 (A, B)
CAVI Lemma: RF cup. Phintias. Last quarter sixth. 510-500{1}.
CAVI Subject: Int.: satyr. A: a naked youth holding his erect penis and handing(?) a calyx
krater to a fat hetaera on his right. B: a fat hetaera manipulates a youth's
erect penis. Under each handle, an eye.
CAVI Inscriptions: Int.: (Φ)ιντια(.) γ̣ εγρα[φσ]εν. A, B, each: signature of Phintias.
CAVI Footnotes: {1} see Carlsruhe 63.104.
CAVI Comments: Ex Swiss Private. "The letter after the alpha of the name [on the Int.] is
fragmentary and amorphous; the letter after it might be gamma or kappa. The
signature [on the Int.] and the other inscriptions are very hard to read,"
ARV[2]. There are three signatures, as on Carlsruhe 63.104, q.v. Robertson
thinks the old hetaera on the Exterior may be a picture of a real one called
Syko and so named on Euphronios' krater Munich 8935, where the hetaera is
equally old. Frel argued that the youth(s) is (are) Phintias himself, but Weiss
points out that the color of the eyes differs on A and B. Keuls also disagrees
with Frel and thinks the vase might be a joke on Smikros. Frel also thought A
showed a potter (perhaps Phintias himself) offering a pot to a hetaera as a
token of love. But Keuls and H.-P. show that the theme is the drinking lust of
old women, the krater being thought of as containing wine. There are other
inscriptions, it seems, which I have not registered; see Threatte (1996), 641,
where [h]εδ̣ομαι is cited.
CAVI Number: 4943
AVI Bibliography: ARV[2] (1963), 1620/12 bis. — Dierichs (1986), 55ff., figs. 91,a-b. — Keuls
(1988), 300-313, figs. 13 and 15 (B and A). — Add.[2] (1989), 155. —
Pfisterer-Haas (1989), 49 and 199f. (III C). — Weiss (1989), 92-93, figs. 3,a-c
(Ext. only). — AttScr (1990), no. 397. — Huber (1992), 57. — Robertson (1992),
29 and 299 n. 59. — Threatte (1996), 641 and 769.
CAVI / AVI Data from Henry Immerwahr's Corpus of Attic Vase Inscriptions (CAVI), updated by Rudoph Wachter's Attic Vase Inscriptions (AVI)
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