Decoration: Body: DIONYSOS WITH DRINKING HORN AND GRAPEVINE, BETWEEN MAENADS IN CHITONISKOI, ON MULES
Last Recorded Collection: Malibu (CA), The J. Paul Getty Museum: 86.AE.134
Previous Collections:
Greenwich (CT), private, M. and W. Bareiss: 341
Publication Record: Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum: MALIBU, J. PAUL GETTY MUSEUM 2, 13-14, FIG.12, PLS.(1242,1244) 68.1-3, 70.2-3 View Whole CVA Plates Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae: VIII, PL.541, MAINADES 83 Moraw, S., Die Mänade in der attischen Vasenmalerei des 6. und 5. Jahrhunderts v.Chr. (Mainz, 1998): PL.5.14A-C (BD)
CAVI Lemma: BF lekythos. Leagros Group (Bothmer). Last quarter sixth.
CAVI Subject: Dionysus flanked by two maenads mounted on mules.
CAVI Inscriptions: The mule at right has a serpentine squiggle on its croup as a brand: a
four-stroke sigma or a snake?
CAVI Comments: Ex S.80.AE.227. Ex Bareiss 341. This squiggle looks more like a sigma than do
the squiggles on Malibu S.82.AE.2, q.v., but I wonder if Simon is not right in
calling them serpentines.
CAVI Number: 4996
AVI Bibliography: J. Paul Getty Museum (1983), 73/72 (not ill.). — A.J. Clark, CVA Malibu 2,
USA 25 (1990), pls. 68,1-3 and 70, 203 (bibl.).
CAVI / AVI Data from Henry Immerwahr's Corpus of Attic Vase Inscriptions (CAVI), updated by Rudoph Wachter's Attic Vase Inscriptions (AVI)
