Decoration: A: HEADS OF DIONYSOS, WITH IVY, AND SEMELE (?) BETWEEN EYES, WREATH SUSPENDED B: HEADS OF MAN AND WOMAN BETWEEN EYES
Last Recorded Collection: New York (N.Y.), market, Sotheby's
Previous Collections:
Beverly Hills (CA), market, Summa Galleries
Texas, Hunt Collection: 3
Publication Record: Jouanna, J. and Villard, L., Vin et Sante en Grece Amcienne, BCH Supplement 40 (Paris, 2002): PL.3.1-3 (A, PARTS OF A AND B) Revue Archeologique: 1986, 1, 13, FIG.7 (B) Sotheby's, The Nelson Bunker Hunt Collection, New York, 19.6.1990 (New York, 1990): NO.3 (A, B, PART) Summa Galleries, Beverley Hills, sale catalogue: 1 (1981), NO.4, FRONT COVER (A, COLOUR OF B) Wealth of the Ancient World, the Hunt Collections (Fort Worth, 1983): 50-51, NO.3 (A, B) del Corral Corredoira, P.D., Y Dioniso desposó a la rubia Ariadna, estudio iconográfico de la cerámica ática (575-300 a.C.) (Oxford, 2007): 149, FIG.77 (A)
CAVI Collection: Once Dallas, TX, Nelson Bunker Hunt.
CAVI Lemma: BF cup. Near Kallis Painter (Bothmer). Ca. 540-530.
CAVI Subject: Int.: BG, except for a reserved tondo with two circles and a central dot, and
except for a reserved line inside the lip. A-B: between eyes: each: busts of
Dionysus (holding an ivy branch) and Semele (or Ariadne) to left; at the top, on
A, three, and on B, four wreaths hung up.
CAVI Inscriptions: A: above the head of Dionysus, on the BG line that runs just below the lip:
nonsense inscription; behind his head, wavy and diagonally downward, another:
(.)ε(.)ο(ι)νιο(ς), retr.{1}.
CAVI Footnotes: {1} is this Διονυσος miswritten?
CAVI Comments: The ph. is rather unclear. [For parallels see Athens, N.M. 17,673 (CAVI 928)
and Naples, Stg. 172 (CAVI 5495), both by the Kallis Painter.]
CAVI Number: 3344a
AVI Bibliography: Summa (1981), no. 4. — Cody (1983), 50/3 (ill., p. 50 shows inscription
faintly).
CAVI / AVI Data from Henry Immerwahr's Corpus of Attic Vase Inscriptions (CAVI), updated by Rudoph Wachter's Attic Vase Inscriptions (AVI)
