Decoration: A: SYMPOSIUM, DRAPED MAN RECLINING, PLAYING LYRE, DRAPED YOUTHS RECLINING, ONE PLAYING KOTTABOS WITH CUPS, ONE WITH OINOCHOE AND STICKS, BASKETS SUSPENDED B: SYMPOSIUM, DRAPED YOUTHS RECLINING, PLAYING KOTTABOS WITH CUPS, BASKETS AND CUPS SUSPENDED I: WARRIOR (YOUTH) ON HORSEBACK Under handle: PHALLOS BIRD ON TRIPOD IN CUP, INSCRIPTION, KOTTABOS
Last Recorded Collection: Basel, private, Borowski
Publication Record: 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): 147, FIG.5 (DRAWING OF PART) PHOTOGRAPH(S) IN THE BEAZLEY ARCHIVE: 14 (I, A, B) Schafer, A, Unterhaltung beim griechischen Symposium (Mainz, 1997): PL.18.1 (DRAWING OF UH AND PARTS OF A AND B) Vickers, M.J., Greek Symposia (Oxford, 1978): 16, FIG.17
CAVI Lemma: RF cup. Apollodoros. Ca. 490 (Lissarrague).
CAVI Subject: Int.: horseman. A-B: symposium with kottabos players{2}.
CAVI Inscriptions: Signature of Apollodoros (see Giroux). A: at right, youth to right and
bearded man with lyre to left, on a couch; the youth holds two cups with offset
lips, one raised for kottabos: on each cup, on the lip: καλος. Under the handle
A/B: flat pan, on which is a small tripod surmounted by a phallos bird (taking
the place of a kottabos stand); on the pan's body: κοτ[τ]αβος{3}. B: at left,
two youths to left on a couch; that on the left raises a cup for the kottabos
throw; that on the right holds a cup; the kottabos cup is apparently shown in
profile with an inscription on the inside: καλε; on the body of the other cup:
καλος. Neither cup has an offset rim.
CAVI Footnotes: {1} English private collection. {2} very similar to those on Louvre G 139-140
(cf. Giroux). {3} "Sous un anse, un recipient bas, sur lequel on lit
l'inscription: κοτ[τ]αβος, porte un support a trois pieds sur lequel se trouve
un oiseau-phallos." (Giroux).
CAVI Comments: The above readings are from the sketch in Lissarrague; they are clearly
incomplete. I know the signature only from its mention by Giroux. Lissarrague
discusses the game of kottabos on pp. 80-86. [Not in ARV[2]?]
CAVI Number: 7837
AVI Bibliography: Vickers (n.d.), 15, fig. 17. — H. Giroux, CVA Louvre 19, France 28 (1977), p.
44, under pls. 66,3-4 and 67,1-2 (mention). — Lissarrague (1990a), 81-83, fig.
68 (sketch of parts of A and B, showing several inscriptions; after Vickers,
fig. 17).
CAVI / AVI Data from Henry Immerwahr's Corpus of Attic Vase Inscriptions (CAVI), updated by Rudoph Wachter's Attic Vase Inscriptions (AVI)
