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)
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)
