Decoration: A: DIONYSOS AND MAENADS, ONE IN LEOPARD SKIN WITH OINOCHOE, DANCING B: MAENADS, ONE WITH PANTHER, ONE IN LEOPARD SKIN WITH THYRSOS, ONE WITH DEER, DANCING I: WARRIOR (BLACK YOUTH) WITH PELTA AND JAVELIN, SHIELD DEVICE, IVY
Last Recorded Collection: Paris, Musée du Louvre: G93
Publication Record: American Journal of Archaeology: 39 (1935) PL.10A (I) Bazant, J., Les citoyens sur les vases atheniens, Rocnik 95 (1985) 2: PL.4.8 (I) Beazley, J.D., Attic Black-Figure Vase-Painters (Oxford, 1956): 390.3 Beazley, J.D., Attic Red-Figure Vase-Painters, 2nd edition (Oxford, 1963): 225.4 Beazley, J.D., Attic Red-figure Vase-painters, 1st ed. (Oxford, 1942): 150 Burn, L. and Glynn, R., Beazley Addenda (Oxford, 1982): 98 Carpenter, T.H., with Mannack, T. and Mendonca, M., Beazley Addenda, 2nd edition (Oxford, 1989): 198 Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum: PARIS, MUSEE DU LOUVRE 19, 31, PLS.(1258,1259) 53.1-4, 54.1 View Whole CVA Plates Giudice, F. and Panvini, R. (eds.), Il greco, il barbaro e la ceramica attica, Immaginario del diverso, processi di scambio e autorappresentazione degli indegni, Volume Quarto, Atti del Convegno Internazionale di Studi 14-19 maggio 2001 (Rome, 2007): 22, FIG.3 (I) Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae: I, PL.321, AITHIOPES 4 (I) Lissarrague, F., L'Autre Guerrier, Archers, Peltastes, Cavaliers dans l'Imagerie Attique (Paris-Rome, 1990): 29, FIG.5 (DRAWING OF I) Pottier, E., Vases antiques du Louvre (Paris, 1897-1922): PL.99 Revue Archeologique: 1983, 239, FIG.3 (B) Revue des Etudes Anciennes: 94 (1992) 146, FIG.8 (B) Snowden, F., Blacks in Antiquity (Cambridge, Mass., 1970): 47, FIG.17 (I) Villanueva-Puig, M-C., Menades, Recherches sur la genese iconographique du thiase feminin de Dionysos des origins a la fin de la period archaique (Paris, 2009): 222, FIG.4 (B)
CAVI Lemma: RF cup. From Poggio Sommavilla. Painter of London E 2. First quarter fifth.
CAVI Subject: Int.: a black warrior (companion of Memnon). A: Dionysus between two Maenads.
B: three maenads.
CAVI Inscriptions: Nonsense: Int.: to left of the African's face: ιωδον. To right of his back:
χιμε̣ο{1}. A: between the left maenad and Dionysus: (ν)δχαοι. Above the right
maenad's right arm: γαι. Above Dionysus' left shoulder: νδ. B: between the left
and middle maenads: (ν)δχι. Between the middle and right maenads: χανιο̣, retr.
To right of the right maenad: νχδ̣{2}.
CAVI Footnotes: {1} so the photo in AJA 39. The omega may less likely be a mu written upside
down. The epsilon is unclear. CVA, in the text, puts the two inscriptions
together: χιμεονδομι. {2} The exterior after CVA, text.
CAVI Comments: The painter is a BF artist, whose work is akin to the Nikoxenos Painter; see
ABV and ARV[2]. By the same potter as London E 2. The inscriptions are very
similar to vases of the Leagros Group, especially on A and B. This makes one
wonder about the date: ca. 500?
CAVI Number: 6442
AVI Bibliography: A.D. Fraser (1935), 35, pl. 10A (Int.). — ABV (1956), 390/3. — ARV[2] (1963),
225/4. — H. Giroux, CVA Louvre 19, France 28 (1977), pls. 53,1-4 and 54,1. —
Add.[2] (1989), 198. — AttScr (1990), no. 1157.
CAVI / AVI Data from Henry Immerwahr's Corpus of Attic Vase Inscriptions (CAVI), updated by Rudoph Wachter's Attic Vase Inscriptions (AVI)
