Decoration: A,B: KOMOS I: WOMEN, ONE NAKED, AT PHALLOS
Last Recorded Collection: Rome, Mus. Naz. Etrusco di Villa Giulia: 50404
Publication Record: Beazley, J.D., Attic Red-Figure Vase-Painters, 2nd edition (Oxford, 1963): 1565.1 Immerwahr, H., A Corpus of Attic Vase Inscriptions, Preliminary Edition (1998): 7182 Stampolidis, N.C. and Tassoulas, Y. (eds.), Eros, from Hesiod’s Theogony to Late Antiquity, Museum of Cycladic Art, Athens, 10th December 2009-11th April 2010 (Athens, 2009): 264, NO.238 (COLOUR OF I)
CAVI Lemma: RF cup. Unattributed{1}. First quarter fifth.
CAVI Subject: Int.: two hetaerae at the Haloa fetival: they dance around a phallus
supported by stylized testicles as a base. [`dancing' seems better than
`erecting a phallus'. It could be that the right hetaera who is nude is erecting
it, or holding it upright, while the left one, who is draped, dances around it].
A: komos of four dancing youths. B: komos of four figures, two fighting and two
bearded.
CAVI Inscriptions: Int.: above the scene, near the margin: καλ̣ος; on the middle and lower
right, similar: hο παις. Caruso reads: Int.: ο πα[ς] κα[λ]ος. On the phallus,
vertically down, in BG: καλε{2}. A: Φρισσταγορας καλος, for Αρισσταγορας.
Beazley reads: ΦΡΙΣΣ ΤΑΛΟΡΑΣ ΚΑΛΟΣ. [sic]. A: under the rim: κ[α]λος ο π[α]ις.
Caruso: traces of illegible letters.
CAVI Footnotes: {1} Mingazzini attributes to Oedipus Ptr., a follower of Douris. {2} very
sloppy: The letters unclear; it may perhaps be read retr. kappa = chi 1; alpha =
delta S 1; lambda = gamma 2 (lambda 5), unless the inscription is to be read
retr., when lambda would be 2; epsilon near 8 (se the chart in AttScr).
CAVI Comments: Beazley thinks the writer may have had another kalos in mind and changed
after the first letter; he notes that on Louvre C 10,917+ the name is coupled
with Phaidrias. - M.'s reading of the inscriptions on the Int. is roughly
correct, but for A he gives only κ[α]λος hο π[α]ις and no name. The facss. make
no sense.
CAVI Number: 7182
AVI Bibliography: Photo (Int.). — Klein (1898), .... s.v. Aristagoras. — Vorberg (1926), pl. 9
(Int.). — Deubner (1932), pl. 4. — Vorberg (1932), 493. — ARV[2] (1963), 1565/1.
— Mingazzini (1971), 35/649, pls. 117,7, 119,2 (shows Int. inscriptions),
120,1-2, 121,1-2, B, fig. 1 and E, fig. 1 (facss. A and Int.). — Caruso (1985),
39/44 (Int.; the ph. (Int.) shows traces of the inscriptions on the BG, and
clearly that on the phallus). — Add.[2] (1989), 388 (bibl.).
CAVI / AVI Data from Henry Immerwahr's Corpus of Attic Vase Inscriptions (CAVI), updated by Rudoph Wachter's Attic Vase Inscriptions (AVI)
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