Decoration: Figure: PHALLOS On handle: COURTING, MAN AND YOUTH
Last Recorded Collection: Boston (MA), Museum of Fine Arts: 13.105
Publication Record: Beazley, J.D., Attic Black-Figure Vase-Painters (Oxford, 1956): 170.1 Carpenter, T.H., with Mannack, T. and Mendonca, M., Beazley Addenda, 2nd edition (Oxford, 1989): 48 Hedreen, G., The Image of the Artist in Archaic and Classical Greece, Art, Poetry, and Subjectivity (Cambridge, 2016): 248, FIG.51 (PART) Herrmann, J. and Kondoleon, C., (eds.), Games for the Gods, The Greek Athlete and the Olympic Spirit (Boston, 2004): 133, NO.108 (COLOUR OF PART) Lapatin, K. (ed.), Papers on Special Techniques in Athenian Vases, Proceedings of a symposium held in connection with the exhibition The Colours of Clay, Special Techniques in Athenian Vases, at the Getty Villa, June 15-17, 2006 (Los Angeles, 2008): 10, FIG.6 (PART) Minerva, International Review of Ancient Art and Archaeology: 15.5 (SEPTEMBER/OCTOBER 2004) 16, FIG.7 (COLOUR OF PART) Münchner Jahrbuch der Bildenden Kunst: 11 (1919-21) 10, FIG.13A-B
CAVI Lemma: BF PLASTIC ARYBALLOS (AIDOION). FROM GREECE. UNATTRIBUTED. PRIAPOS, POTTER.
THIRD QUARTER SIXTH (BEAZLEY: NOT MUCH AFTER 550).
CAVI Subject: ON THE BACK OF THE HANDLE: A MAN COURTING A BOY (ορχιπεδιζων).
CAVI Inscriptions: ON THE RESERVED LIP PROFILE, IN BG: Πριαπος επ[οι]εσεν.
CAVI Comments: BEAZLEY IN BSA SAYS THAT THERE IS NO CONNECTION BETWEEN THE SHAPE OF THE VASE
AND THE NAME OF THE POTTER, FOR THE SHAPE IS AN IDEAL ONE, THAT OF A YOUTH. [BUT
DID PRIAPUS NOT LOVE BOYS?]
CAVI Number: 2774
AVI Bibliography: BEAZLEY (1927–8), 202 AND N. 4. — BEAZLEY (1947), 204/α 19. — ABV (1956),
170. — ATTSCR (1990), NO. 1081.
CAVI / AVI Data from Henry Immerwahr's Corpus of Attic Vase Inscriptions (CAVI), updated by Rudoph Wachter's Attic Vase Inscriptions (AVI)
