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 Parke Bernet
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 Archéologique: 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)