Decoration: A: APOLLO AND MARSYAS SEATED ON ROCK PLAYING PIPES, ARTEMIS WITH TORCH, TRIPOD ON COLUMN B: DRAPED YOUTHS
Last Recorded Collection: Hillsborough (CA), W.R. Hearst: 20
Previous Collections:
Naples, private, Hamilton
Deepdene, private, Thomas Hope: T139
London, private, Revelstoke
London, market, Puttick & Simpson
Publication Record: Beazley, J.D., Attic Red-Figure Vase-Painters, 2nd edition (Oxford, 1963): 1185.13 Beazley, J.D., Attische Vasenmaler des rotfigurigen Stils (Tübingen, 1925): 451.7 Lenormant, C. and de Witte, J., Elite des monuments ceramographiques (1837-61): II, PL.62 (A) Lenormant, C. and de Witte, J., Elite des monuments ceramographiques (1837-61): II, PL.62 (COLOUR DRAWING OF A) Puttick & Simpson, Ancient Greek Pottery: 5.4.1935, AT P.9, NO.69 (A) Tillyard, E., The Hope Vases (Cambridge, 1923): PL.23 (A) Tischbein, W., Collection of Engravings from Ancient Vases...now in the possession of Sir W. Hamilton (Naples, 1791-95): I, PL.33 (A)
CAVI Collection: HILLSBOROUGH, CA, WILLIAM RANDOLPH HEARST 20.
CAVI Lemma: RF BELL KRATER. KADMOS PAINTER. LAST QUARTER FIFTH. 435-420 (RAUBITSCHEK).
CAVI Subject: A: IN THE CENTER, A SATYR (MARSYAS) SEATED ON A ROCK AND PLAYING THE FLUTES;
TO HIS RIGHT, A TRIPOD; AT LEFT, A WOMAN HOLDING A TORCH; AT RIGHT, A YOUTH
(APOLLO) WITH HIS STAFF ENDING IN LAUREL{1}. B: THREE YOUTHS.
CAVI Inscriptions: A: ABOVE THE WOMAN: Nοσσ. ABOVE THE SATYR: Μολκος. ABOVE THE YOUTH: Αλκις{2}.
CAVI Footnotes: {1} APOLLO AND MARSYAS (TILLYARD). {2} SO I.K.R. TILLYARD HAD Αλκος OR Αλχος,
AND THE INSCRIPTIONS IN A DIFFERENT ORDER. NOT IN LGPN II, BUT SEE PAPE (BOTH
MYTHOLOGICAL AND HUMAN). {3} CF. Nοσσος, IV B.C., LGPN II.
CAVI Comments: GERHARD HAD SUGGESTED READING Μολπος AND THIS AND THE READING Αελιος ARE
FOUND IN ÉLITE. KRETSCHMER, WHO READ Μολκος, RELATES THIS NAME TO μολπη. G.
NEUMANN APUD K.-D. REJECTS KRETSCHMER'S CONNECTION OF Μολκος WITH μελπομαι
UNLESS THE NAME IS EMENDED TO Μολπος; HE SUGGESTS PERHAPS A DIALECTAL VARIANT TO
μαλακος (`SCHLAFF'), POSSIBLY CRETAN, BUT CONSIDERS THE WORD OBSCURE. I.K.R.
COMPARES THE SCENE ON A WITH THE NECK OF THE KADMOS PAINTER'S VOLUTE KRATER,
RUVO 1093, ARV[2] 1184/1 AND CITES SICHTERMANN FOR CONSIDERING ITS PICTURES
THEATRICAL (NOTE THE TRIPOD). IF SO SHE THINKS THE NAMES MAY BE THE NAMES OF
DITHYRAMBIC CHOREUTAE, READING Nοσσ[ος]{3}. KOSSATZ-DEISSMANN LISTS MOLKOS AS A
SATYR NAME.
CAVI Number: 4006
AVI Bibliography: TISCHBEIN (1791–5), I, 82/139, PL. 33. — INGHIRAMI (1835), PL. 327 (AFTER
TISCHBEIN). — LENORMANT–DE WITTE (1837–61), II, PL. 62 (AFTER TISCHBEIN). —
GERHARD (1840–58), I, 210. — KRETSCHMER (1894), 145. — C. FRäNKEL (1912), 70,
96/U. — TILLYARD (1923), 82/139, PL. 23. — RE XVI/1 (1933), S.V. MOLKOS
(SCHERLING). — ARV[2] (1963), 1185/13, 341. — I.K. RAUBITSCHEK (1969), 71/20,
(A, B AND PARTS). — FRONING (1971), 37 WITH N. 234, AND 40/K 10. — ADD.[2]
(1989), 341. — KOSSATZ-DEISSMANN (1991), 163 (MOLKOS 1).
CAVI / AVI Data from Henry Immerwahr's Corpus of Attic Vase Inscriptions (CAVI), updated by Rudoph Wachter's Attic Vase Inscriptions (AVI)
