Decoration: A: DIONYSOS WITH KANTHAROS ON MULE BETWEEN MAENADS AND SATYRS WITH WINESKIN B: MAENADS AND SATYRS I: ATHLETE, YOUTH WITH HALTER AND JAVELINS
Last Recorded Collection: Boston (MA), Museum of Fine Arts: 95.35
Publication Record: Beazley, J.D., Attic Red-Figure Vase-Painters, 2nd edition (Oxford, 1963): 136.2 Beazley, J.D., Attic Red-figure Vase-painters, 1st ed. (Oxford, 1942): 111.1 Chiarini, S., The so-called Nonsense Inscriptions on Ancient Greek Vases, Between Paideia and Paidiá (Leiden, 2018): 81, FIG.16 (COLOUR OF I) Herrmann, J. and Kondoleon, C., (eds.), Games for the Gods, The Greek Athlete and the Olympic Spirit (Boston, 2004): 24, NO.40 (COLOUR OF I)
CAVI Lemma: RF cup. From Italy. Poseidon Painter (Coarser Wing). Last quarter sixth.
CAVI Subject: Int.: youth with javelin and halteres. A: Dionysus on a donkey, with three
satyrs and two maenads. B: three satyrs and three maenads alternating.
CAVI Inscriptions: Nonsense: Int.: to left of the youth's face: λολοσ. To right of his body:
γοσνοσνο. Between the legs: γοσλ(ο)σ(ο){1}. A: above the back of the third
figure (a satyr): λοσλο[.]. To left of a donkey's rear: γοσλ(ο). To left of
Dionysus' head: λοσιο. To right of the rightmost figure's head: λοσ[λι̣. B: to
right of the leftmost satyr's head: νοσ(.). To left of the second satyr's head:
λοσγο. To left of the second maenad's face: γοσ̣ι. To left of the third satyr's
head: πυ[ι̣λι. To right of the rightmost maenad's head: λ(ο)[σ. Under the foot,
Gr.: ΑΤΣ, the sigma three-stroke and reversed. See Johnston (1979), 110/14C,2
and Hackl (1909), 450.
CAVI Footnotes: {1} the last two omicrons open at the top, as are most of the omicrons.
CAVI Comments: I do not know the value of the sign [ (sigma?). Rather sloppy writing. Note
the alternation of gamma and lambda. The same graffito on Boston 95.32 and
13.82.
CAVI Number: 2636
AVI Bibliography: ARV[2] (1963), 136/2.
CAVI / AVI Data from Henry Immerwahr's Corpus of Attic Vase Inscriptions (CAVI), updated by Rudoph Wachter's Attic Vase Inscriptions (AVI)
