Decoration: Body: RETURN OF HEPHAISTOS, DIONYSOS WITH KANTHAROS, BOTH ON MULE, SATYR PLAYING PIPES, SATYR BOY WITH THYRSOS
Last Recorded Collection: New York (N.Y.), Metropolitan Museum: 08.258.22
Publication Record: Beazley, J.D., Attic Red-Figure Vase-Painters, 2nd edition (Oxford, 1963): 1249.12 Carpenter, T.H., with Mannack, T. and Mendonca, M., Beazley Addenda, 2nd edition (Oxford, 1989): 354 Furtwängler, A. and Reichhold, K., Griechische Vasenmalerei (Munich, 1904-32): PL.120.1 (BD) Journal of Hellenic Studies: 124 (2004) PL.6B (BD) Lezzi-Hafter, A., Der Eretria-Maler, Werke und Weggefährten (Mainz, 1988): 196, FIG.64A (PROFILE), 206, FIG.69 (DRAWING OF PART), PL.135, NO.213 Lissarrague, F., La cite des satyres. Une anthropologie ludique (Athenes, VIe-Ve siecle avant J.-C.) (Paris, 2013): 156, FIG.129 (DRAWING OF BD) Schmidt, S., Rhetorische Bilder auf attischen Vasen, Visuelle Kommunikation im 5. Jahrhundert v. Chr. (Berlin, 2005): 174, FIG.88 (BD) Schweizerische Numismatische Rundschau: 75 (1996) PL.2.5B (PART)
CAVI Lemma: RF chous (oinochoe). Eretria Painter; Class of Athens 15308 (Green). 430-420.
CAVI Subject: Return of Hephaestus: a grown satyr and a boy satyr lead Dionysus and
Hephaestus, both riding on one donkey.
CAVI Inscriptions: High above the head of the satyr leading the procession (and playing the
flutes), in letters larger than the other inscriptions: Κο̣μος{1}. High above
the heads of the two gods sitting on a donkey: Δ[ι]ο̣νυσο̣ς. Εφαιστ̣ος̣. The
first two inscriptions horizontal, the last nearly so{2}.
CAVI Footnotes: {1} despite this, the name is that of the satyr, not a heading. K.-D. reads:
Κ̣ο̣μο̣ς. {2} L.-H. has: [Κω]μος [sic]. [Διο]νυσ[ο]ς. Εφαισ̣[τ]ο[ς].
CAVI Comments: The sketch in Lissarrague shows the inscription Κομος high above the two
satyrs (the leader who plays the flutes and the boy satyr who leads the donkey
and raises up a tall thyrsos, which may partly explain the height of the
inscription); and the letters are larger than those of the other two
inscriptions, which name Dionysus and Hephaestus. This is not noted by L., who
says it is the `stage name' of the lead satyr. [Could the Komos inscription have
a double meaning?]
CAVI Number: 5582
AVI Bibliography: Richter–Hall (1936), i, 178/140, pls. 142 and 177. — ARV[2] (1963), 1249/12.
— Green (1971), 197,1. — Walter (1971), 257, fig. 233. — LIMC iii (1986), pl.
364, Dionysos 565. — Lezzi-Hafter (1988), 206, 339/213, pl. 135. — Add.[2]
(1989), 354. — AttScr (1990), no. 796. — Lissarrague (1990a), 41, fig. 27
(sketch with inscriptions). — Kossatz-Deissmann (1991), 158 (Komos 12, bibl.).
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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