Decoration: A: DIONYSOS (BEARDLESS) SEATED WITH THYRSOS, BETWEEN MAENADS B: ARIADNE WITH FILLET BETWEEN EROTES, ONE FLYING WITH FILLET I: SATYR, MAENAD SEATED WITH THYRSOS
Last Recorded Collection: Paris, Cabinet des Medailles: M824
Publication Record: Immerwahr, H., A Corpus of Attic Vase Inscriptions, Preliminary Edition (1998): 6225
CAVI Lemma: RF CUP. FROM RUVO. UNATTRIBUTED. SECOND HALF FIFTH.
CAVI Subject: INT.: A WREATH OF IVY LEAVES AND BERRIES; A SATYR BEFORE A SEATED MAENAD WHO
HOLDS A THYRSUS. A: A MAENAD; A YOUTHFUL DIONYSUS (THE HEAD MISSING) WITH A
THYRSUS, SEATED; A MAENAD LOOKING BACK. B: EROS FLYING, WITH A FILLET; ARIADNE
WITH A FILLET; ANOTHER EROS, TOUCHING ARIADNE'S ARM.
CAVI Inscriptions: THE INSCRIPTIONS ARE REPAINTED{1}. INT.: καλος{2}. καλαι{2}. A: BETWEEN THE
LEFT MAENAD'S HEAD AND THE THYRSUS: καλο[ς]. BETWEEN DIONYSUS AND THE RIGHT
MAENAD'S HEAD: Διον[υ]σος{3}. B: Αριαδνα[ι] καλαι{4}.
CAVI Footnotes: {1} CORRECTLY, ACCORDING TO DE WITTE AS REPORTED BY OPPERMANN (SO DE RIDDER).
{2} DE RIDDER, TEXT. {3} SO DE RIDDER'S TEXT; THE FACS. ON P. 488 SHOWS
[Δ]ιονισος WITH THREE-STROKE SIGMA TWICE, WHILE THE DR. OF FIG. 118 HAS
FOUR-STROKE TWICE. {4} SO DE RIDDER'S TEXT, SURELY MISREAD; THE FACS. ON P. 488
HAS: Α(ρ)ια(δ)να AND καλαι. ORIGINALLY REPORTED AS ΑΡΙΑΓNΕ; SEE THREATTE (1980),
565.
CAVI Comments: DESPITE DE WITTE'S CONFIDENCE, I THINK THE INSCRIPTIONS MAY WELL BE FALSE
(MODERN) OR INCORRECTLY RESTORED. I SUSPECT THE WHOLE VASE IS HEAVILY RESTORED.
CAVI Number: 6225
AVI Bibliography: DE RIDDER (1902), II, 487-88, FIG. 118, PL. 23.
CAVI / AVI Data from Henry Immerwahr's Corpus of Attic Vase Inscriptions (CAVI), updated by Rudoph Wachter's Attic Vase Inscriptions (AVI)
