Decoration: A: DEATH OF PENTHEUS, AGAVE AND WOMEN (MAENADS) IN LEOPARD SKINS OR NEBRIDES, ONE WITH LEG, SATYR B: DEATH OF PENTHEUS, DIONYSOS SEATED WITH KANTHAROS, SATYR PLAYING PIPES, WOMEN WITH LEG I: MAENAD WITH THYRSOS AND LEOPARD
Last Recorded Collection: Fort Worth, Kimbell Art Museum: 2000.02
Previous Collections:
Toronto, Borowski
New York (N.Y.), market, Christie's
Publication Record: Bonnechere, P., and Gagne, R. (eds.), Sacrifices humains, Perspectives croisees et representations, Human sacrifice, Cross-cultural perspectives and representations (Liege, 2013): PL.9A-B (COLOUR OF A AND B) Buitron-Oliver, D., Douris, A Master-Painter of Athenian Red-Figure Vases (Mainz, 1995): PL.73, NO.121 (I, A, B) Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies: 52 (2009) 25, PL.5 (A, B) Carpenter, T.H., Art and Myth in Ancient Greece (London, 1991): FIG.134 (A) Carpenter, T.H., Dionysian Imagery in Fifth-Century Athens (Oxford, 1997): PL.42 (A, B) Christie, Manson and Woods, sale catalogue: 12.4.2000, ADVERTISEMENT ON P 164 (COLOUR OF I) Christie, Manson and Woods, sale catalogue: NEW YORK, 12.6.2000, 82, 84, NO.81 (COLOUR OF I, A AND B) Dietrich, N. and Squire, M. (eds.), Ornament and Figure in Graeco-Roman Art, Rethinking visual Ontologies in Classical Antiquity (Berlin and Boston, 2018): 226-227, FIGS.8.9-10 (A, B) Frontisi-Ducroux, F., Du Masque au Visage, Aspects de l'identite en Grece ancienne (Paris, 1995): PL.70 (A, B) Ghiron-Bistagne, P. (ed.), Realia, Melanges sur les realites du theatre antique, Cahiers du Gita 6 (1991/92): 23, FIGS9-10 (A, B) Giacobello, F. (ed.), Le Ore della Donna, Storie e immagini nella collezione di ceramiche attiche a magnogreche di Intesa Sanpaolo (Vicenza, 2009): 71 (A) Isler-Kerenyi, C., Dionysos in Classical Athens. An Understanding through Images (Leiden and Boston, 2014): 59, FIG.31A-B (A AND B) Lefkowitz, M., Greek Gods, Human Lives (New Haven and London, 2003): 164-165 (I, A, B) Leipen, N. (et al.), Glimpses of Excellence (Toronto, 1984): 16, 48, FRONTISPIECE, NO.12 (I, A, B) Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae: VII, PL. 259, PENTHEUS 43 Lissarrague, F., La cite des satyres. Une anthropologie ludique (Athenes, VIe-Ve siecle avant J.-C.) (Paris, 2013): 169, FIG.144 (COLOUR OF A) Minerva, International Review of Ancient Art and Archaeology: 11.3 (MAY/JUNE 2000) 37 (COLOUR OF I) Minerva, International Review of Ancient Art and Archaeology: 11.5 (SEPTEMBER/OCTOBER 2000) 34, FIGS.1-3 (A, B, I) Neer, R.T., Art and Archaeology of the Greek World, a new history, c.2500-c.150 BC (London, 2012): 207, FIG.8.15 (COLOUR OF A) Neer, R.T., Style and Politics in Athenian Vase-Painting, The Craft of Democracy, ca.530-460 B.C.E. (Cambridge, 2002): 60, FIGS.24-25 (A, B) Numismatica e Antichita Classiche, Quaderni Ticinesi: 23 (1994) 45-46, FIGS.12-14 (A, B, I) Shapiro H.A., Myth into Art, Poet and Painter in Classical Athens (London, 1994): 174-175, FIGS.123-125
CAVI Lemma: RF cup. Douris. Python, potter (Guy). First quarter fifth. Ca. 480 (Guy).
Middle period (Buitron-Oliver).
CAVI Subject: Int.: a maenad holding a leopard and a thyrsus. Ext.: Death of Pentheus: A:
Dionysus seated; a satyr playing the flutes; three maenads (women of Thebes)
with portions of Pentheus. B: four maenads tearing apart Pentheus.
CAVI Inscriptions: Int.: starting from the back of the maenad's head, along the margin: hε vac.
παις ^ καλε{1}.
CAVI Footnotes: {1} to right of top of head: hε; then a gap of 2 letters; then curving
downward to stop at the maenad's left hand that holds the thyrsus: παις; along
the thyrsus stalk, vertically down: κ v. αλε. The two parts of the word are
separated by the node in the stalk.
CAVI Comments: Probably now Jerusalem, Borowaki. The inscription is planned: the gap (of 2
letters: see the note below) after the article brings παις down to the maenad's
hand and thyrsus; καλος is written along the thyrsus. For the gap after the
article in Douris see TAPhA 79 (1948) 184.
CAVI Number: 7735
AVI Bibliography: Guy (1984), 16/12 and title-page (Int.). — Shapiro (1994), 175-76, figs.
123-25 (all). — Buitron-Oliver (1995), 34-35, 80/121, pl. 73.
CAVI / AVI Data from Henry Immerwahr's Corpus of Attic Vase Inscriptions (CAVI), updated by Rudoph Wachter's Attic Vase Inscriptions (AVI)
