Decoration: Figure: DIONYSOS SEATED WITH DRINKING HORN ON STOOL WITH LEOPARD SKIN HERMES, APHRODITE WITH SWAN, APOLLO WITH LYRE, ARTEMIS WITH KROTALA (ALL NAMED)
Last Recorded Collection: London, British Museum: E785
CAVI Lemma: Fragmentary RF plastic rhyton (satyr). From Capua. Unattributed. Date
unclear.
CAVI Subject: Plastic: Dionysus seated with a drinking horn. Decoration: at left, Artemis,
Apollo and Aphrodite; at right, Hermes running toward them.
CAVI Inscriptions: Behind Artemis, facing her: [Αρ]τεμις, retr. Απολλον. To Hermes' left, facing
him: [hε]ρμες, retr. Beside the caduceus of Hermes is an alpha, perhaps the
first letter of Α[ρ]τεμις, not of Aphrodite.
CAVI Comments: The top has been trimmed, removing the figures' heads.
CAVI Number: 4654
AVI Bibliography: BADB 7870. — C.H. Smith in BM Cat. E (1896), 372. — Buschor (1919), 18. —
H.B. Walters, CVA London 4, Great Britain 5 (1929), III I c, pl. 37,1a-d. —
Rumpf (1936), 63-64, fig. 1. — Schuchhardt (1967), figs. 6-8 at 17. — LIMC ii
(1984), pl. 540, Artemis 1165 (part).
CAVI / AVI Data from Henry Immerwahr's Corpus of Attic Vase Inscriptions (CAVI), updated by Rudoph Wachter's Attic Vase Inscriptions (AVI)