Decoration: A: APOLLO AND MARSYAS SEATED ON ROCK PLAYING PIPES, ARTEMIS WITH TORCH, TRIPOD ON COLUMN B: DRAPED YOUTHS
Last Recorded Collection: Hillsborough (CA), W.R. Hearst: 20
Previous Collections:
Naples, private, Hamilton
Deepdene, private, Thomas Hope: T139
London, private, Revelstoke
Publication Record: Beazley, J.D., Attic Red-Figure Vase-Painters, 2nd edition (Oxford, 1963): 1185.13 Beazley, J.D., Attische Vasenmaler des rotfigurigen Stils (Tübingen, 1925): 451.7 Lenormant, C. and de Witte, J., Elite des monuments ceramographiques (1837-61): II, PL.62 (A) Lenormant, C. and de Witte, J., Elite des monuments ceramographiques (1837-61): II, PL.62 (COLOUR DRAWING OF A) Tillyard, E., The Hope Vases (Cambridge, 1923): PL.23 (A) Tischbein, W., Collection of Engravings from Ancient Vases...now in the possession of Sir W. Hamilton (Naples, 1791-95): I, PL.33 (A)
CAVI Collection: Hillsborough, CA, William Randolph Hearst 20.
CAVI Lemma: RF bell krater. Kadmos Painter. Last quarter fifth. 435-420 (Raubitschek).
CAVI Subject: A: in the center, a satyr (Marsyas) seated on a rock and playing the flutes;
to his right, a tripod; at left, a woman holding a torch; at right, a youth
(Apollo) with his staff ending in laurel{1}. B: three youths.
CAVI Inscriptions: A: above the woman: Nοσσ. Above the satyr: Μολκος. Above the youth: Αλκις{2}.
CAVI Footnotes: {1} Apollo and Marsyas (Tillyard). {2} so I.K.R. Tillyard had Αλκος or Αλχος,
and the inscriptions in a different order. Not in LGPN ii, but see Pape (both
mythological and human). {3} Cf. Nοσσος, iv B.C., LGPN ii.
CAVI Comments: Gerhard had suggested reading Μολπος and this and the reading Αελιος are
found in Élite. Kretschmer, who read Μολκος, relates this name to μολπη. G.
Neumann apud K.-D. rejects Kretschmer's connection of Μολκος with μελπομαι
unless the name is emended to Μολπος; he suggests perhaps a dialectal variant to
μαλακος (`schlaff'), possibly Cretan, but considers the word obscure. I.K.R.
compares the scene on A with the neck of the Kadmos Painter's volute krater,
Ruvo 1093, ARV[2] 1184/1 and cites Sichtermann for considering its pictures
theatrical (note the tripod). If so she thinks the names may be the names of
dithyrambic choreutae, reading Nοσσ[ος]{3}. Kossatz-Deissmann lists Molkos as a
satyr name.
CAVI Number: 4006
AVI Bibliography: Tischbein (1791–5), i, 82/139, pl. 33. — Inghirami (1835), pl. 327 (after
Tischbein). — Lenormant–de Witte (1837–61), ii, pl. 62 (after Tischbein). —
Gerhard (1840–58), i, 210. — Kretschmer (1894), 145. — C. Fränkel (1912), 70,
96/u. — Tillyard (1923), 82/139, pl. 23. — RE XVI/1 (1933), s.v. Molkos
(Scherling). — ARV[2] (1963), 1185/13, 341. — I.K. Raubitschek (1969), 71/20,
(A, B and parts). — Froning (1971), 37 with n. 234, and 40/K 10. — Add.[2]
(1989), 341. — Kossatz-Deissmann (1991), 163 (Molkos 1).
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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