Decoration: Body: ASSEMBLY OF GODS (HERAKLES, ATHENA, DIONYSOS WITH KANTHAROS, HERMES, POSEIDON, GODS AND GODDESSES)
Last Recorded Collection: Rome, Mus. Naz. Etrusco di Villa Giulia: 84466
Publication Record: Antike Kunst: 21 (1978), PL.6 Carpenter, T.H., with Mannack, T. and Mendonca, M., Beazley Addenda, 2nd edition (Oxford, 1989): 400 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): 31-32, FIGS.1A, 2 Kalcyk, H. et al. (eds.), Studien zur Alten Geschichte, Festschrift Siegfried Lauffer (Rome, 1986): 3, PL.1 (FACING PAGE 804) (PART) Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae: III, PL.397, DIONYSOS 818 (PART) Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae: SUPPLEMENTUM 1, PL.253, ZEUS ADD.200 (PARTS) Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae: V, PL.155, HERAKLES 3389 Metis: 5 (1990) 1-2, 68, FIG.5 (DRAWING) Numismatica e Antichita Classiche, Quaderni Ticinesi: 10 (1981), 55, PL.1 (PART) Numismatica e Antichita Classiche, Quaderni Ticinesi: 9 (1980), 40-45, PLS.1-4 (PART) Panciera, S. (ed.), Tituli 2, Miscellanea (Rome, 1980): PL.1 (PARTS) Rizzo, M.A. (ed.), Un Artista Etrusco e il suo mondo. Il Pittore di Micali (Rome, 1988): 88, FIG.155 Scheibler, I., Griechische Töpferkunst, Herstellung, Handel und Gebrauch der antiken Tongefässe (Munich, 1983): 179, FIG.158 (PART) Scheibler, I., Griechische Töpferkunst, Herstellung, Handel und Gebrauch der antiken Tongefässe, 2nd ed. (Munich, 1995): 179, FIG.158 (PART) Shapiro, H.A., Art and Cult under the Tyrants in Athens (Mainz, 1989): PL.63A-C Torelli, M., The Etruscans (Milan, 2000): 599, NO.179 (COLOUR OF PARTS)
CAVI Lemma: BF KYATHOS. FROM VULCI, OSTERIA NECROPOLIS, TOMB 145. LYDOS THE SLAVE. LAST
QUARTER SIXTH.
CAVI Subject: ASSEMBLY OF GODS: ELEVEN DIVINITIES WITH HERACLES, IN SIX PAIRS: A MALE
(ZEUS?), AND A FEMALE HOLDING A FRUIT (HEBE?); A MALE (HEPHAESTUS?), AND A
FEMALE (APHRODITE?) HOLDING A FLOWER; HERACLES AND ATHENA; IN THE CENTER,
DIONYSUS; POSEIDON AND AMPHITRITE(?); A MALE, AND LOWER PART OF A FEMALE
DIVINITY.
CAVI Inscriptions: AT THE TOP OF THE SCENE, ABOVE AND BETWEEN HEADS, RIGHT UNDER THE TOP MARGIN,
STARTING TO RIGHT OF `HEPHAESTUS'' HEAD AND ENDING TO LEFT OF THE RIGHT HANDLE
ROOT: ADD.[2]: Λυδὸς ἔγραφσεν δολοσονμυδεασσευγε[...]ο. GUARDUCCI: Λυδὸς
ἔγραφσεν δο̃λος ὂν Μυδέαςς [SIC] εὐλέκ̣[τ]ο̅. SHE TRANSLATES: `LYDOS DIPINSE,
ESSENDO SCHIAVO DI MIDEA (O MIDEIA) DAL BEL TALAMO', GIVING AN EROTIC MEANING.
SHE POSTULATES Μυδεαςς FOR Μιδεας OR Μιδειαςς; THE DOUBLE SIGMAS ARE ABOVE THE
HEAD OF AMPHITRITE. [I AM NOT AWARE OF THE OCCURRENCE OF DOUBLE SIGMA AT WORD
END OR BEFORE A VOWEL.] NEUMANN: Λυδὸς ^ ἔγρ^αφ^σεν ^ δο̃λο^ς ὂν Μ^υρ̣εν̣εὺς̣ ^
ἐ[....]ο. `LYDOS HAT ES GEMALT, DER EIN SKLAVE IST, (STAMMEND) AUS MYRINA."(1)
HRI: MANY LETTERS ARE UNCLEAR: Λυδὸς ἔγραφσεν δ{THE DELTA HAS A DOT UNDER
IT}ο̃λος ὂν Μυδ{THE `RHO' LOOKS LIKE A DELTA}ερ{THIS LETTER LOOKS LIKE TAILED
AND POINTED RHO; PERHAPS A REVERSED SIGMA WRITTEN OVER AN IOTA?} ευλ{NEUMANN'S
SIGMA LOOKS LIKE ATTIC LAMBDA} ευ̣{THE TIP OF A DIAGONAL STROKE, LIKE THE
LEFT-HAND STROKE OF UPSILON} {THE GAP IS MARKED BY N. AS FOUR LETTERS, BUT THE
FEMALE'S HEAD PROBABLY INTERVENED; HENCE ONLY 2-3 LETTERS MIGHT BE MISSING}ο.
{THE LETTER (DOTS) AFTER (AND BELOW) THE OMICRON MENTIONED BY CANCIANO SEEM TO
ME DOUBTFUL}. Λυδὸς ἔγραφσεν (δ)ο̃λος ὂν Μυδερευλευ[--]ο(?){2}.
CAVI Footnotes: {1} MYRINA SHOULD BE THE COASTAL AEOLIAN CITY, NOT THAT ON LESBOS. [BUT PAPE
GIVES Μυριναιος]. {2} BEA. ARCH. GIVES: LYDOS EGRAPHSEN DOLOSONMURENEUS. THIS IS
NEUMANN'S READING.
CAVI Comments: ROBERTSON: THE LATE WEAK STYLE HAS NO CONNECTION WITH THE GREAT LYDOS. HE IS
ANOTHER MAN OF THE SAME ETHNIC ORIGIN. I.E. LYDOS IS A SLAVE NAME. CANCIANI 17
AND N. 2 INTERPRETS THE TWO UNIQUE SIGNS ABOVE `AMPHITRITE'S' HEAD NOT AS
LETTERS BUT AS `KREBSSCHEREN', APPROPRIATE TO THIS GODDESS. LGPN II WRONGLY
IDENTIFIES THIS LYDOS WITH THE FAMOUS VASE PAINTER.
CAVI Number: 7257
AVI Bibliography: BADB 6247. — ROBERTSON (1976), 29FF. AND 42 (MENTION). — TIVERIOS (1976),
376. — CANCIANI–NEUMANN (1978), 17-22, FIG. 1 (FACS. OF INSCRIPTION), PL. 6. —
SEG 28 (1978), NO. 823, AND SEG 31 (1981), NO. 887. — GUARDUCCI (1980), 40-45,
PLS. 1-4. — GUARDUCCI (1980), 7-10. — GUARDUCCI (1981), 55, PL. 1 (PART). —
SCHEIBLER (1983), 113, FIG. 103, BOTTOM (DR. AFTER AK 21); 179, FIG. 158 (PART).
— STUDIEN LAUFFER (1986), 3, PL. 1 [[NOT FOUND]]. — M.A. RIZZO (1988), 88, FIG.
155. — ADD.[2] (1989), 400. — SHAPIRO (1989), 97, 136 (BIBL. N. 27) AND 137,
158, 162, PL. 63,A-C (GOOD FOR INSCRIPTION). — ATTSCR (1990), NO. 126. —
ROBERTSON (1992), 137.
CAVI / AVI Data from Henry Immerwahr's Corpus of Attic Vase Inscriptions (CAVI), updated by Rudoph Wachter's Attic Vase Inscriptions (AVI)
