Decoration: A,B: EROTIC, NAKED WOMAN ON WINESKIN BETWEEN MAN AND YOUTH, STAFFS, BASKET SUSPENDED I: KOMOS, MAN KNEELING WITH SKYPHOS, STAFF
Last Recorded Collection: Basel, Antikenmuseum und Sammlung Ludwig: BS440
Previous Collections:
Luzern, market, Ars Antiqua
Arlesheim, private, S. Schweizer
Publication Record: Beazley, J.D., Attic Red-Figure Vase-Painters, 2nd edition (Oxford, 1963): 326.86BIS, 1706 Beazley, J.D., Paralipomena (Oxford, 1971): 359 Bignasca, A. et al., Sex, Drugs und Leierspiel, Rausch und Ekstase in der Antike, 20. Oktober 2011 bis 29. Januar 2012 (Basel, 2011): 75, NO.58 (COLOUR OF B) Boardman, J., Athenian Red Figure Vases (London, 1975): FIG.233 (A) Burn, L. and Glynn, R., Beazley Addenda (Oxford, 1982): 107 Carpenter, T.H., with Mannack, T. and Mendonca, M., Beazley Addenda, 2nd edition (Oxford, 1989): 216 Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum: BASEL, ANTIKENMUSEUM UND SAMMLUNG LUDWIG 2, 27-28, BEILAGE 3.2, PLS.(266,267,290,294) 10.2, 11.1-2, 34.2.6, 38.12 View Whole CVA Plates Keuls, E., The Reign of the Phallus (New York, 1985): 184, FIG.165 Kilmer, M.F., Greek Erotica on Attic Red-Figure Vases (London, 1993): PL.AT P.146, R464 (A, B) Schuller, W., Die Welt der Hetären. Berühmte Frauen zwischen Legende und Wirklichkeit (Stuttgart, 2008): FIG.20 (A) Sparkes, B.A., The Red and the Black (London, 1996): 106, FIG.IV.10 (I) Vierneisel, K., and Kaeser, B. (eds.), Kunst der Schale, Kultur des Trinkens (Munich, 1990): 230, FIG.37.3 (A)
CAVI Lemma: RF cup. Onesimos. First quarter fifth. Ca. 490 (CVA).
CAVI Subject: Int.: bearded komast squatting, with a skyphos in his left hand; his staff
put aside. Ext.: love making: A: hetaera leaning against a wineskin and lifting
her left leg while holding onto a loop high above her with her left hand (so
CVA); at left, a youth; at right, a bearded man holds a sandal in his right hand
and stretches out his left arm. B: hetaera putting her head on a wineskin on the
ground more animalium; on one side, a youth, on the other, a bearded man, both
holding staffs.
CAVI Inscriptions: Int.: above the komast: hο παις καλος?. On the bottom line, in thinned BG,
widely spaced: hο παι[ς]. A: above the scene: hε πα]ις καλε{1}. B: to left and
right of the basket that hangs above the hetaera: hε παι[ς] ^ καλε.
CAVI Footnotes: {1} my copy from CVA lacks the lefthand bracket.
CAVI Comments: Ex Lucerne Market and Arlesheim, Schweizer. - CVA gives parallels for
wineskins as pillows for positioning in love making. See Mobius, AA 1964, 294ff.
