Attributed To: LEWIS P by CAHN POLYGNOTOS by SIMON
Decoration: A: THEATRICAL (?), SATYR IN CHITONISKOS AND BOOTS WITH TORCHES, WOMAN OR MAENAD (BRIDE, BASILINNA ?) B: MAENAD AND DRAPED SATYR WITH THYRSOI
Last Recorded Collection: Berlin, private, Schiller
Previous Collections:
Switzerland, private
Publication Record: Batino, S., Lo skyphos attico dall'iconografia alla funzione (Naples, 2002): 463, FIGS.20A-B (A, B) Beazley, J.D., Attic Red-Figure Vase-Painters, 2nd edition (Oxford, 1963): 1676.37 Beazley, J.D., Paralipomena (Oxford, 1971): 436 Carpenter, T.H., with Mannack, T. and Mendonca, M., Beazley Addenda, 2nd edition (Oxford, 1989): 310 Christopoulos, M. et al. (eds.), Light and Darkness in Ancient Greek Myth and Religion (Plymouth, 2010): 243, FIG.17.3 (A) Heinemann, A., Der Gott des Gelages. Dionysos, Satyrn und Mänaden auf attischem Trinkgeschirr des 5. Jahrhunderts v. Chr. (Berlin, 2016): 397, 447, FIGS.261, 302 (B, A) International Congress of Classical Archaeology, 12, Athens, 1983. Praktika, 2-3 Tou XII Diethnous Synedriou Klasikes Archaiologias, Athena, 4-10 Sep: VOL.B, PL.20.7 (A) Kerenyi, K., Dionysos (London, 1976): FIG.97 (A) Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae: VI, PL.20, KERYX 11 (A) Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae: VIII, PLS.540, 754, MAINADES 68, SILENOI 43B (A, B) Simon, E., Ausgewählte Schriften, I, Griechische Kunst (Mainz, 1998): 136-137, FIGS.12.1-3 (A, B, UH) Steinhart, M., Die Kunst der Nachahmung (Mainz, 2004): PL.32.1-2 (A, B)
CAVI Lemma: RF SKYPHOS. LEWIS PAINTER. CA. 450. CA. 445 (CAHN).
CAVI Subject: A: A BEARDED SATYR HOLDING A TORCH IN EACH HAND PRECEDES A WOMAN (THE
BRIDE){1}. B: A BEARDED SATYR IN CHITON AND HIMATION LEADS A WOMAN (χεὶρ ἐπὶ
καρπῷ) WITH THYRSUS, WHILE ALSO HOLDING A THYRSUS.
CAVI Inscriptions: A: AT THE TOP: NEAR THE WOMAN: καλη. NEAR THE SATYR: καλο[ς]{2}. B: AS ON A:
καλε AND καλο[ς]{2}.
CAVI Footnotes: {1} CAHN: IN A SHORT CHITON AND AN OUTER GARMENT WITH OVERFOLDS; BOOTS. CAHN
THINKS SHE IS A MALE DRESSED AS A WOMAN, THE BRIDE'S MOTHER; HE THINKS IT IS
FROM A SATYR PLAY. {2} SO CAHN.
CAVI Comments: A: THE BRIDE COULD BE THE BASILINNA AT THE ANTHESTERIA. MIXED ALPHABET WITH
ATTIC LAMBDA.
CAVI Number: 7519
AVI Bibliography: M&M-AUCTION (1961), 95/177, PL. 59 (A, B, SIDE). — ARV[2] (1963), 1676/37. —
SIMON (1963A), PL. 2. — PARA. (1971), 436. — ADD.[2] (1989), 310.
CAVI / AVI Data from Henry Immerwahr's Corpus of Attic Vase Inscriptions (CAVI), updated by Rudoph Wachter's Attic Vase Inscriptions (AVI)
