Decoration: A: KOMOS, YOUTHS, ONE DRAPED PLAYING PIPES, ONE WITH STAFF AND BASKET (?), DRAPED MEN, ONE WITH KROTALA, ONE WITH LYRE, ONE WITH SKYPHOS B: KOMOS, YOUTHS, ONE DRAPED WITH PIPES, ONE DRAPED DANCING, ONE WITH STAFF AND BASKET (?), DRAPED MEN WITH WALKING STICKS, ONE LEANING, ONE DANCING I: KOMOS, YOUTH PLAYING LYRE, MAN
Last Recorded Collection: Toledo (OH), Museum of Art: 64.126
Previous Collections:
Toledo (OH), Museum of Art: 1964.126
Publication Record: Beazley, J.D., Paralipomena (Oxford, 1971): 370.12BIS Bundrick, S.D., Music and Image in Classical Athens (Cambridge, 2005): 23, 85, FIGS.11, 52 (A) Carpenter, T.H., with Mannack, T. and Mendonca, M., Beazley Addenda, 2nd edition (Oxford, 1989): 231 Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum: TOLEDO, TOLEDO MUSEUM OF ART 1, 35-36, FIGS.10, 11, 12, PLS.(835-836) 55.1-2, 56.1-2 View Whole CVA Plates Keuls, E., The Reign of the Phallus (New York, 1985): 71, FIG.51 (I) Lear, A. and Cantarella, E., Images of ancient Greek pederasty, Boys were their gods (London and New York, 2008): 117, FIG.3.7 (I) Maas, M. and Snyder, J.M, Stringed Instruments of Ancient Greece (New Haven, 1989): 110, FIG.24 (I) Moon, W.G. and Berge, L., (eds.), Greek Vase Painting in Midwestern Collections (Chicago, 1979): 178-79, NO.101 (I,A,B) Peschel, I., Die Hetäre bei Symposium und Komos in der attisch rotfigurigen Malerei des 6.-4. Jhs. v.Chr. (Frankfurt, 1987): PL.124 (A,B) Toledo Museum of Art, Museum News: 11 (1968) 41 (I,A,B) Yatromanolakis, D., Sappho in the Making, The Early Reception (Cambridge and London, 2007): 121, FIG.12 (A)
CAVI Subject: Komos: Int.: a youth with a lyre, singing, and a bearded man; both dancing.
A: a youth playing the flutes; a bearded komast dancing while holding a skyphos;
a bearded komast playing the lyre and singing; a bearded komast dancing with
castanets; a boy carrying a stick and a large bag(?). B: a boy; a man listening
(trying to sing); a girl piper; a young dancer.
CAVI Inscriptions: Nonsense: Int.: from the youth's open mouth: νοε(ν)(.)ο(.)(.)(ν)ε{1}. A, B,
each: many nu's. A: the phs. show an inscription issuing from the singer's
mouth. Cf. the Int. picture. See also the facss. in CVA.
CAVI Footnotes: {1} The first (.) is incompletely preserved, the others are imitation
letters. Two nu's are reversed.
CAVI Comments: "On the background can be seen remains of inscriptions with many nus."
(Beazley). On the Int.: imitation of a song?
CAVI Number: 7709
AVI Bibliography: Riefstahl (n.d.), [[n.p.]] (ill.: Int., A [[sm. and uncl.]]). — Para. (1971),
370/12 bis. — C.G. Boulter and K.T. Luckner, CVA Toledo 1, USA 17 (1976), figs.
10-12 (facss.), pls. 55-56. — Add.[2] (1989), 231. — Beazley (1989), 81 and n.
10 (not ill.).
CAVI / AVI Data from Henry Immerwahr's Corpus of Attic Vase Inscriptions (CAVI), updated by Rudoph Wachter's Attic Vase Inscriptions (AVI)
