275024, ATHENIAN, New York (N.Y.), Metropolitan Museum, New York (N.Y.), Metropolitan Museum, Kings Point (N.Y.), N. Schimmel, Geneva, market, 1989.281.69
Decoration: Body: WARRIORS RIDING ON DOLPHINS, DEVICES, TRISKELES, CUP, GRIFFIN, LION AND HORSE, ALL WINGED, KANTHAROS, DOLPHIN WHEEL (ALL NAMED)
Last Recorded Collection: New York (N.Y.), Metropolitan Museum: L1979.17.1
Previous Collections:
Geneva, market
Kings Point (N.Y.), N. Schimmel: 57
New York (N.Y.), Metropolitan Museum: 1989.281.69
Publication Record: Beazley, J.D., Attic Red-Figure Vase-Painters, 2nd edition (Oxford, 1963): 1622.7BIS Beazley, J.D., Paralipomena (Oxford, 1971): 326, 259 Carpenter, T.H., with Mannack, T. and Mendonca, M., Beazley Addenda, 2nd edition (Oxford, 1989): 163 Compton-Engle, G., Costume in the Comedies of Aristophanes (Cambridge, 2015): 116, FIG.26 (PART OF BD) Green, J.R., Theatre in ancient Greek society (London, 1995): 32, FIG.2.11 (PART) Hephaistos: 15 (1997) 60, FIG.19 (PART) Jahreshefte des Österreichischen Archäologischen Instituts in Wien: 71 (2002) 251-263, FIGS.1-2 (PARTS). Kraus, C., Goldhill, S., Foley, H.P., and Elsner, J. (eds.), Visualizing the Tragic, Drama, Myth, and Ritual in Greek Art and Literature (Oxford, 2007): 153, FIGS.6.1A-B (DRAWING) Moignard, E., Master of Attic Black-Figure Painting. The Art and Legacy of Exekias (London and New York, 2015): 121, FIG.64 (PART OF BD) Oakley, J.H. and Palagia, O. (eds.), Athenian Potters and Painters, Volume II (Oxford, 2010): 149, FIG.4B (DRAWING OF PART) Ostraka: 9 (2000) 1, 36, FIG.9 (PART) 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): 100, NO.106 (COLOUR OF PART OF BD) Steinhart, M., Die Kunst der Nachahmung (Mainz, 2004): PL.8.2 (PART) Tiverios, M.A., Elliniki techni, archaia angaia (Athens, 1996): 120, FIG.89 (COLOUR OF PART) Tsingarida, A. (ed.), Shapes and Uses of Greek Vases (7th-4th centuries B.C.), Proceedings of the Symposium held at the Universite Libre de Bruxelles, 27-29 April 2006 (Brussels, 2009): 245, FIG.9 (DRAWING OF BD) Valavanis, P. and Kourkoumelis, D., Chaire kai piei, drinking vessels (1996): 73 (COLOUR OF PART) Vierneisel, K., and Kaeser, B. (eds.), Kunst der Schale, Kultur des Trinkens (Munich, 1990): 263, FIG.41.8 (PART)
CAVI Lemma: RF psykter. Oltos. Last quarter sixth. 510-500.
CAVI Subject: Six armed men (`heroes', Beazley) riding on dophins.
CAVI Inscriptions: By each rider, from the mouth: επι δελφινος, retr.
CAVI Comments: Listed in Add.[2] as: New York L. 1979.17.1 (on loan from Schimmel). - I
interpret the inscriptions as ornamental additions to the pictures; Sifakis
thinks they are words sung by a dolphin chorus. Beazley in ARV[2] points to
parallels which add a flute player. It is clearly a chorus, but it does not
follow that the words are a song. - Drougou agrees with Sifakis. - Lissarrague
reads epidelphinos `mounted on a dolphin'; is this a printing error or does he
think it is an adj.? L. notes the shield devices, three of which are vase
shapes. When the psykter is set in a krater the dolphins swim in the wine-dark
sea. He has more on dolphins and symposium scenes.
