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320437, ATHENIAN, Paris, Musée du Louvre, F5

  • Vase Number: 320437
  • Fabric: ATHENIAN
  • Technique: BLACK-FIGURE
  • Shape Name: AMPHORA, BELLY, TYPE B
  • Date: -550 TO -500
  • Attributed To: Manner of PRINCETON P by BEAZLEY
    PRINCETON GROUP by BEAZLEY
  • Decoration: A: DIONYSOS WITH KANTHAROS AND GRAPEVINE, WOMAN (ARIADNE ?), BETWEEN SATYRS AND MAENADS, IVY WREATH (?) SUSPENDED
    B: DIONYSOS WITH DRINKING HORN, BETWEEN SATYRS AND MAENADS, ONE IN NEBRIS
  • Last Recorded Collection: Paris, Musée du Louvre: F5
  • Publication Record: Beazley, J.D., Attic Black-Figure Vase-Painters (Oxford, 1956): 300.13
    Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum: PARIS, LOUVRE 3, III.He.10, PLS.(147-148) 10.8, 11.2 View Whole CVA Plates
    Isler-Kerenyi, C., Dionysos in Archaic Greece, An Understanding through Images (Leiden, 2007): FIGS.56-57 (A, B)
  • AVI Web: HTTPS://WWW.AVI.UNIBAS.CH/DB/SEARCHFORM.HTML?ID=6514
  • AVI Record Number: 6278
  • CAVI Collection: PARIS, LOUVRE F 5.
  • CAVI Lemma: BF AMPHORA. MANNER OF PRINCETON PAINTER. THIRD QUARTER SIXTH.
  • CAVI Subject: A: DIONYSUS AND ARIADNE WITH SATYRS AND MAENADS. B: DIONYSUS WITH SATYRS AND MAENADS.
  • CAVI Inscriptions: NONSENSE: A: ELEVEN IMITATION INSCRIPTIONS: LEFT TO RIGHT: 2 IS TO LEFT OF THE LEFTMOST SATYR'S LEGS: ε(ο)οπε(.)(.)(.)(.)(.), RETR.{1}. 3 IS ON THEIR RIGHT: π(ο)π(.)(.)(α)λ(ο)(δ)(ο), RETR. 6 IS BETWEEN A MAENAD'S AND DIONYSUS' LEGS: π(ο)σ(.)ο/(ρ)(ο)Ι(ο)(α)ολυς, RETR.{2}. B: THIRTEEN IMITATION INSCRIPTIONS: 12 IS TO RIGHT OF THE LEFTMOST SATYR'S LEGS: ϝοσ(ο)ε(σ)(.)σ, RETR.{3}. 13 IS TO RIGHT OF THE HEAD OF A MAENAD LOOKING LEFT: ο(α)ε(γ)ο{4}. 14: TO LEFT OF THE SECOND SATYR'S LOWER BACK: ε(ϝ){5}. 15: TO LEFT OF HIS LEGS: ϙοι V.(?) (.)ο(.)(υ), RETR.{6}. 17: TO RIGHT OF DIONYSUS' CHEST: ενολ. 19: TO RIGHT OF DIONYSUS' LOWER LEGS: (ε)(.)(γ))(.)(.), RETR.(1), {7} . 20: TO RIGHT OF DIONYSUS' LOWER LEFT: ιπ(.)σ V.(?) σ{6}. 22: BETWEEN A MAENAD AND THE RIGHTMOST SATYR: εο(ϝ)(.)((.)(.), RETR.(1),{8}.
  • CAVI Footnotes: {1} FOR IMITATION INSCRIPTIONS BEGINNING WITH EPSILON, SEE MUNICH 2242, BF BAND CUP, CVA, GERMANY 57, PL. 25,1-6. {2} THE OTHER INSCRIPTIONS CANNOT BE READ FROM CVA'S PHOTOS. {3} THE SIXTH LETTER IS A SIDEWAYS SIGMA. {4} A HIGH-KICKING ALPHA, SMEARED; THE GAMMA A HALF-ARROW REVERSED. {5} DIGAMMA REVERSED. {6} ONE INSCRIPTION. {7} GAMMA A HALF-ARROW. {8} DIGAMMA REVERSED.
  • CAVI Comments: THE READINGS ARE NOT RELIABLE. EPSILON IS VARIABLE.
  • CAVI Number: 6278
  • AVI Bibliography: E. POTTIER, CVA LOUVRE 3, FRANCE 4 (1925), III H E, PLS. 10,8 AND 11,2. — ABV (1956), 300/13.
  • 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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Last updated 15/12/2025 07:10:00. Approved by Mannack, Thomas. Copyright © 2003-2026 Classical Art Research Centre, University of Oxford.

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