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 für 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.