Decoration: A: DIONYSOS WITH KANTHAROS AND THYRSOS, SATYRS, ONE WITH KANTHAROS, MAENADS, ONE WITH LYRE, ONE PLAYING PIPES B: MAENADS, WITH THYRSOI, AND SATYRS, ONE WITH WINESKIN Under handle: SATYR PURSUING MAENAD WITH THYRSOS
Last Recorded Collection: New York (N.Y.), Metropolitan Museum: 07.286.85
Publication Record: Beazley, J.D., Attic Red-Figure Vase-Painters, 2nd edition (Oxford, 1963): 632.3 Beazley, J.D., Attische Vasenmaler des rotfigurigen Stils (Tübingen, 1925): 363.1 Carpenter, T. and Faraone, C.A., (eds.), Masks of Dionysos (Cornell, 1993): 49, FIG.4 Carpenter, T.H., with Mannack, T. and Mendonca, M., Beazley Addenda, 2nd edition (Oxford, 1989): 272 Herford, M., Handbook of Greek Vase Painting (Manchester, 1919): PL.10.G (A) Jameson, M. (ed.), Cults and Rites in Ancient Greece. Essays on Religion and Society (Cambridge, 2014): 66, FIG.4.4 (A) Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae: VI, PL.176, MAINAS 4 (B) Lezzi-Hafter, A., Der Eretria-Maler, Werke und Weggefährten (Mainz, 1988): 25, FIG.4E-F LEFT (DRAWINGS OF PARTS) Lindblom, A., Take a Walk on the Wild Side. The Behaviour, Attitude and Identity of Women Approached by Satyrs on Attic Red-Figure Vases from 530 to 400 B.C. (Stockholm, 2011): 252, NO.153 (UH) Maas, M. and Snyder, J.M, Stringed Instruments of Ancient Greece (New Haven, 1989): 137, FIG.19 (A) Picon, C.A., Mertens, J.R., et al., Art of the Classical World in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Greece, Cyprus, Etruria, Rome (New York, 2007): 132, NO.145 (COLOUR OF A) Pochmarski, E., Dionysische Gruppen, eine typologische Untersuchung zur Geschichte des Stützmotivs (1990): PL.2 (A) Richter, G., Handbook of the Classical Collection, Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, 1917): 122
CAVI Lemma: RF bell krater. From Numana. Methyse Painter{1}. Second quarter fifth. Ca.
450 (Richter).
CAVI Subject: A: Dionysus, drunk in procession, with satyrs and maenads. B: satyrs and
maenads.
CAVI Inscriptions: A: above the leftmost satyr's head: Μαλεος. Above the left maenad's head:
Χρυσεις. To left of the shoulder of a small satyr who supports Dionysus:
Οινοβ|ιος, retr.{2}. with end-boustr. Above Dionysus: Διονυσος. Above the head
of a drunk and lyre-playing maenad: Μεθυσε{3}. B: Μεθυσε. Οινοβιος. Μαινας,
retr. [Μ]υρις, retr.{4}.
CAVI Footnotes: {1} akin to the Chicago Painter. {2} except beta. {3} K.-D. gives one
instance as complete, the other as Μεθ[υσ]ε. {4} the inscriptions on B are done
from R-H's text.
CAVI Comments: R-H (M. Milne?): Mainas is common. Chryseis, Maleos and Methyse are new.
Maleos: cf. perhaps Μαλεα, the birth place of Silenus; Pollux 4.404 on Laconian
satyr dances; and RE s.v. Maleas 875ff.; or miswritten for Μαλερος(?). Myris:
cf. a male reveler on a Corinthian column krater in Dresden, C. Fränkel (1912),
16, 82C and pl. 1. Attic alphabet with Ionic lambda.
