Decoration: A: HEADS OF DIONYSOS WITH KANTHAROS AND SEMELE (BOTH NAMED), WREATH OR NECKLACE SUSPENDED, SATYR CLIMBING GRAPEVINE, NONSENSE INSCRIPTION B: HEADS OF DIONYSOS WITH DRINKING HORN, AND MAENADS (SOME NAMED), NONSENSE INSCRIPTIONS Under handle: SATYR
Last Recorded Collection: Naples, Museo Archeologico Nazionale: SA172
Previous Collections:
Naples, Museo Archeologico Nazionale: STG172
Publication Record: American Journal of Archaeology: 123 (2019) 427, FIG.9 (COLOUR OF A) Archäologischer Anzeiger: (1999) 564, FIGS.9-10 (PARTS) Beazley, J.D., Attic Black-Figure Vase-Painters (Oxford, 1956): 203.1, 689 Carpenter, T.H., with Mannack, T. and Mendonca, M., Beazley Addenda, 2nd edition (Oxford, 1989): 55 Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum: NAPOLI, MUSEO NAZIONALE 1, III.H.E.11, PLS.(965,966) 21.1-3,22.1-2 View Whole CVA Plates Dietrich, N., Figur ohne Raum? Bäume und Felsen in der attischen Vasenmalerei des 6. und 5. Jahrhunderts v. Chr., Image & Context 7 (Berlin, 2010): 77, FIG.57 (PART OF A AND UH) Hamdorf, D., Dionysos, Bacchus, Kult und Wandlungen des Weingottes (Munich, 1986): 78, PL.40 (PART OF A) Heinemann, A., Der Gott des Gelages. Dionysos, Satyrn und Mänaden auf attischem Trinkgeschirr des 5. Jahrhunderts v. Chr. (Berlin, 2016): 108, FIG.46 (PART OF B) Holmberg, E.J., On the Rycroft Painter and other Black-Figure Vase-Painters with a Feeling for Nature (Jonsered, 1992): 30, FIG.18 (A, PART OF A) Isler-Kerenyi, C., Civilizing Violence, Satyrs on 6th-century Greek Vases (Fribourg and Göttingen, 2004): 72, FIGS.35A-B (DRAWING OF A) Isler-Kerenyi, C., Dionysos in Archaic Greece, An Understanding through Images (Leiden, 2007): FIGS.102-103 (A, B) Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae: V, PL.604, KALLIS II 1 (PART OF B) Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae: VII, PL.534, SEMELE 35 (A) Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae: VIII, PL.524, MAINADES 1 (B) Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae: VIII, PL.752, SILENOI 38A (PART OF A) Morard, T., Horizontalite et Verticalite, Le bandeau humain et le bandeau divin chez le Peintre de Darius (Mainz, 2009): PL.111.2 (A) Revue des Etudes Grecques: 126 (2013) 46, FIGS.15 AND 16 (DRAWING OF A, B) Schefold, K., Gods and Heroes in Late Archaic Greek Art. English translation by A. Griffiths (Cambridge, 1992): FIG.50 (A) Vasi Antichi, Museo Archeologio Nazionale di Napoli (Naples 2009): 31 (COLOUR OF A) 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): 244, FIG.26 (A) del Corral Corredoira, P.D., Y Dioniso desposó a la rubia Ariadna, estudio iconográfico de la cerámica ática (575-300 a.C.) (Oxford, 2007): 145, FIG.73 (A)
CAVI Lemma: BF cup. From Capua. Kallis Painter. Third quarter sixth.
CAVI Subject: A: heads of Dionysus and Semele. On the left a vine and a satyr under the
handle; on the right, a vine with a satyr climbing and another under the handle.
B: heads of a maenad, Dionysus and two other maenads.
CAVI Inscriptions: A: by the satyr under the left handle: nonsense: νι(.)(ν)ριο, and down:
γειογ(υ){1}. Above Dionysus' head: Διονυσος. Along Semele's forehead: Σεμελε,
retr. Above her head: σνσο(ν)(ν)υ, retr.(?). Along the back of the climbing
satyr: (.)ε(.)]γειο(.){1}. B: above Dionysus' head: χπιογνιτκπ. Between Dionysus
and his drinking horn: Διονυσος, retr. Above the head of first maenad to his
right: Καλ[λ]ις. Similar for the maenad at right: Σιμε. The left maenad is not
inscribed.
CAVI Footnotes: {1} the reading is doubtful.
CAVI Comments: Cup proto-A. - The handwriting resembles that on Athens, N.M. 17,873, by the
same painter, q.v. K.-F. thinks the subject of A is the chthonic Dionysus
bringing back Semele from the Underworld and celebrating the rising sap of the
vine by raising his kantharos. Discussion of Buscher, Feldmäuse 5 and Berard,
Anodoi 72. The inscriptions are a mixture of sense and nonsense.
CAVI Number: 5495
AVI Bibliography: CIG 4 (1855–77), no. 7446b. — C. Fränkel (1912), 21 and 84/K. — Beazley
(1936), 91. — Blösch (1940), 4,7, pl. 2,1. — Vanderpool (1945), 439f. — A.
Adriani, CVA Naples 1, Italy 20 (1950), III H e, pls. 21,1-3 and 22,1-2 (facs.
in text). — ABV (1956), 203,1, 689. — Vacano (1973), 233, A 164. —
Callipolitis-Feytmans (1980), 317ff., fig. 4 (A). — Add.[2] (1989), 55 (bibl.).
— Kossatz-Deissmann (1991), 182 (Kalis (Kallis) 1).
CAVI / AVI Data from Henry Immerwahr's Corpus of Attic Vase Inscriptions (CAVI), updated by Rudoph Wachter's Attic Vase Inscriptions (AVI)
