Decoration: Body: ZEUS (WITH SCEPTRE) HANDING INFANT DIONYSOS TO NYMPHS, ONE SEATED, ONE WITH SCEPTRE, COLUMN
Last Recorded Collection: Paris, Cabinet des Medailles: 440
Publication Record: Arafat, K., Classical Zeus, A Study in Art and Literature (Oxford, 1990): PL.11A Beazley, J.D., Attic Red-Figure Vase-Painters, 2nd edition (Oxford, 1963): 252.51 Beazley, J.D., Attic Red-figure Vase-painters, 1st ed. (Oxford, 1942): 167.43 Beazley, J.D., Attische Vasenmaler des rotfigurigen Stils (Tübingen, 1925): 162.23, 473 Carpenter, T.H., Dionysian Imagery in Fifth-Century Athens (Oxford, 1997): PL.22A Carpenter, T.H., with Mannack, T. and Mendonca, M., Beazley Addenda, 2nd edition (Oxford, 1989): 203 Cook, A., Zeus (Cambridge, 1914-40): I, 708 Isler-Kerenyi, C., Dionysos in Classical Athens. An Understanding through Images (Leiden and Boston, 2014): 104, FIG.53 (BD) Jahrbuch des Deutschen Archäologischen Instituts: 6 (1891) 47 Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae: III, PL.380, DIONYSOS 701 Lissarrague, F., Greek Vases, The Athenians and their Images (2001): 202, FIG.159 (COLOUR OF PART) Luynes, A., Description de quelques vases peints etrusques, italiotes, siciliens et grecs: PL.28 Monuments des Nouvelles Annales: 1837, PL.9 Overbeck, J., Atlas der griechischen Kunstmythologie (Leipzig, 1871-78): PL.1.19
CAVI Lemma: RF hydria (kalpis). Syleus Painter. First quarter fifth.
CAVI Subject: Zeus entrusting the infant Dionysus to the Nymphs.
CAVI Inscriptions: Nonsense? Above the head of a seated nymph, in a curve: five letters. By
Zeus, two vertical inscriptions: five letters and four letters.
CAVI Comments: The facss. in de Ridder are unreliable and not copied here. He reads the
first as καλος, the second as Διον[υ]σος, and the third as Ζευς(?).
CAVI Number: 6133
AVI Bibliography: De Ridder (1902), ii, 331-32 (facs.; not ill.). — ARV[2] (1963), 252/51. —
Add.[2] (1989), 203.
CAVI / AVI Data from Henry Immerwahr's Corpus of Attic Vase Inscriptions (CAVI), updated by Rudoph Wachter's Attic Vase Inscriptions (AVI)
