Decoration: A: HERAKLES LEANING ON CLUB AND GERAS LEANING ON STAFF B: DIONYSOS WITH KANTHAROS, IVY AND LEOPARD, MAENAD WITH OINOCHOE, NONSENSE INSCRIPTION
Last Recorded Collection: Rome, Mus. Naz. Etrusco di Villa Giulia: 48238
Publication Record: Basgelen, N., and Lugal, M. (eds.), Festschrift für Jale Inan (Istanbul, 1989): 65, FIG.20 (A) Beazley, J.D., Attic Red-Figure Vase-Painters, 2nd edition (Oxford, 1963): 284.1 Boardman, J., Athenian Red Figure Vases (London, 1975): FIG.182 (A) Brommer, F., Herakles II (Darmstadt, 1984): PL.35 (A) Burn, L. and Glynn, R., Beazley Addenda (Oxford, 1982): 104 Carpenter, T.H., Art and Myth in Ancient Greece (London, 1991): FIG.220 (A) Carpenter, T.H., with Mannack, T. and Mendonca, M., Beazley Addenda, 2nd edition (Oxford, 1989): 208 Cohen, A. and Rutter, J.B. (eds.), Constructions of childhood in ancient Greece and Italy, Hesperia Supplement 41 (Princeton, 2007): 276, FIG.13.16 (A) Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum: ROMA, MUSEO NAZIONALE ETRUSCO DI VILLA GIULIA 4, 25,26, FIG.8, PL.(2889) 22.1-2 View Whole CVA Plates Galbois, E., and Rougier-Blanc, S. (eds.), La pauvrete en Grece ancienne, Formes, representations, enjeux (Bordeaux, 2014): 187, FIG.6 (DRAWING OF A) Grmek, M. and Gourevitch, D., Les maladies dans l'art antique (1998): 157, FIG.107 (PART OF A) Heinemann, A., Der Gott des Gelages. Dionysos, Satyrn und Mänaden auf attischem Trinkgeschirr des 5. Jahrhunderts v. Chr. (Berlin, 2016): 155, FIG.99 (A) Huf, L., Frauen jenseits der Konvention, Alterszüge, Tätowierungen und afrikanische Physiognomien im Frauenbild attischer Vasen des 5. Jahrhunderts v. Chr. (Munich, 2018): 30, FIG.7 (COLOUR OF A) Kressirer, K., Das Greisenalter in der griechischen Antike. Untersuchung der Vasenbilder und Schriftquellen der archaischen und klassischen Zeit (Hamburg, 2016): 859, NO.627 (A) Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae: III, PL.326, DIONYSOS 283 (B) Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae: IV, PL.101, GERAS 5 (A) Matheson, S.B. and Pollitt, J.J., Old Age in Greek and Roman Art (Yale, 2022): 153, FIG.87 (COLOUR OF A) Melanges de l'Ecole Francaise de Rome: 94 (1982) 401, FIG.8 (A) Nowak, C. and Winkler-Horacek, L. (eds.), Auf der Suche nach der Wirklichkeit, Realismen in der griechischen Plastik. Begleitbuch zu einer Ausstellung der Abguss-Sammlung Antiker Plastik des Instituts für Klassische Archäologie der Freien Universität Berlin (Rahden, 2018): 195, FIG.3 (A) Oakley, J.H. and Palagia, O. (eds.), Athenian Potters and Painters, Volume II (Oxford, 2010): 194, FIG.7 (PART OF A) Papers of the British School at Rome: 79 (2011) 22, FIG.8 (A) Schefold, K. and Jung, F., Die Urkönige, Perseus, Bellerophon, Herakles und Theseus in der klassischen und hellenistischen Kunst (Munich, 1988): 174, FIG.211 (A) Shapiro, H.A., Personifications in Greek Art, The Representation of Abstract Concepts 600-400 BC (Zurich, 1993): 93, FIG.47 (A) Wünsche, R. (ed.), Herakles, Herkules, Staatliche Antikensammlungen München (Munich, 2003): 236, FIG.38.3 (A)
CAVI Lemma: RF pelike. From Cerveteri, Banditaccia cemetery. Matsch Painter{1}. First
quarter fifth. Ca. 480 (CVA).
CAVI Subject: A: Heracles and Geras. B: Dionysus with a kantharos and a maenad pouring for
him.
CAVI Inscriptions: A: from Heracles' (closed) mouth to near Geras' face: λαυεο vac. 2{2}. B:
nonsense: between the upper bodies: χλ(υ)χε(γ){3}.
CAVI Footnotes: {1} akin to the Flying-Angel Painter. {2} uncertain reading from the photo,
not certainly complete. There is a slight gap between the third and fourth
letters. CVA reads: (κ)λαυσει, `you will weep,' which seem dubious also, but is
reported by Shapiro. I too thought that this inscription, which I read only
imperfectly and incompletely, might be something spoken by Heracles, but in view
of the inscription on B, which is clearly nonsense, this is perhaps unlikely.
{3} complete. The bracketed letters are clear but disjointed.
CAVI Number: 7172
AVI Bibliography: Photo (A). — Beazley (1949–51), 19. — Brommer (1952), 60. — ARV[2] (1963),
284/1. — LIMC iv (1988), 181, Geras 5. — Add.[2] (1989), 208. — G. Barbieri, CVA
Villa Giulia 4, Italy 64 (1991), pl. 28, fig. 8; facss., p. 25 (much bibl.). —
Shapiro (1993), 239/36, 93, fig. 47 (A).
CAVI / AVI Data from Henry Immerwahr's Corpus of Attic Vase Inscriptions (CAVI), updated by Rudoph Wachter's Attic Vase Inscriptions (AVI)
