Decoration: A1: THESEUS AND THE MINOTAUR BETWEEN DRAPED MEN, PALMETTE, NONSENSE INSCRIPTIONS A2: FIGHT, WARRIORS, ONE IN NEBRIS, HORSEMEN, HORSE FALLING, HARE, BETWEEN LIONS, NONSENSE INSCRIPTIONS B1: ATHLETES, RUNNING AND BOXING, TRAINER, NONSENSE INSCRIPTIONS B2: DIONYSOS, SEATED WITH DRINKING HORN, HERMES, WOMEN, DRAPED MAN OR MEN, BETWEEN LIONS, NONSENSE INSCRIPTIONS
Last Recorded Collection: Berlin, Antikensammlung: 3755
Previous Collections:
Berlin, Schloss Charlottenburg: 3755
Publication Record: Archäologischer Anzeiger: 1974, 214, FIGS.24, 25 (A, B) Brijder, H.A.G., Siana Cups III, The Red-black painter, Griffin-bird Painter and Siana Cups resembling Lip-cups (Amsterdam, 2000): 616, FIG.147, PLS.192C-D. 194 (A, B, PROFILE) Heilmeyer, W-D. et al., Antikenmuseum Berlin, Die ausgestellten Werke (Berlin, 1988): 102, NO.5 (A) Laser, S., Sport und Spiel, Archeologia Homerica (Göttingen, 1987): PL.T2A (PART) Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae: III, PL.367, DIONYSOS 595 (PART OF B2) PHOTOGRAPH(S) IN THE BEAZLEY ARCHIVE: 2 (B, PART OF A) Schlesier, R. and Schwarzmaier, A. (eds.), Dionysos, Verwandlung und Ekstase (Berlin, 2008): 172-3, NO.22 (COLOUR OF B)
CAVI Lemma: BF Siana cup. From Rhodes. Unattributed. Second quarter sixth.
CAVI Subject: Upper zone: A: Theseus and the Minotaur; onlookers. B: athletes: running and
boxing; trainer. Lower zone: A: fight of warriors and horsemen betweeen lions.
B: Dionysus with drinking horn, seated; Hermes; women and men between lions.
CAVI Inscriptions: Nonsense inscriptions.
CAVI Comments: The picture in Schaal does not show the inscriptions. - Xi in nonsense? See
AttScr.
CAVI Number: 2473
AVI Bibliography: BADB 177. — Schaal (1928), fig. 36 [non vidi]. — Beazley–Payne (1929), 261,
under no. 29 (mention). — Schauenburg (1974), 214, figs. 24-25 (A, B). — LIMC
iii (1986), pl. 367, Dionysus 595 (part of B, lower frieze). — Laser (1987), pl.
T 2,a (part). — AttScr (1990), no. 1055.
CAVI / AVI Data from Henry Immerwahr's Corpus of Attic Vase Inscriptions (CAVI), updated by Rudoph Wachter's Attic Vase Inscriptions (AVI)
