Decoration: Body: MAENADS DANCING, SOME WITH KROTALA, ONE PLAYING PIPES (ALL NAMED)
Last Recorded Collection: Essen, Folkwang Museum: A22
Publication Record: Beazley, J.D., Paralipomena (Oxford, 1971): 182 Carpenter, T.H., with Mannack, T. and Mendonca, M., Beazley Addenda, 2nd edition (Oxford, 1989): 109 Giudice, F. and Panvini, R. (eds.), Il greco, il barbaro e la ceramica attica, Immaginario del diverso, processi di scambio e autorappresentazione degli indegni, Volume Quarto, Atti del Convegno Internazionale di Studi 14-19 maggio 2001 (Rome, 2007): 39, FIG.5 (BD) Manakidou, E., Frauentänze fur Dionysos in der spätarchaischen Vasenmalerei (Athens, Kilchberg-Zurich, 2017): 51, FIG.26 (PART)
CAVI Lemma: BF oinochoe. Unattributed; approaches the Altenburg Class (see ABV 423). Last
quarter sixth. 510-500 (Froning).
CAVI Subject: Female flautist with three female dancers{1}.
CAVI Inscriptions: Left to right: Ορνυπις (dancer), the last four letters retr. Χορονικε, retr.
(dancer). Behind the flautist's back: Αυλεσ̣ι̣(ν)ομ̣ε. Ορχεσιλλε (dancer).
CAVI Footnotes: {1} called maenads by Beazley, but this is rejected by Neumann and Froning
who rightly consider them Greek professional dancers. {2} in Gn. Froning
suggests a Euboean artist working in Athens.
CAVI Comments: For the names see Neumann. West Greek alphabet{2}. The vase is Attic, but the
inscriptions are not.
