Decoration: Shoulder: WOMEN, SOME DANCING (NAMED), SOME NAKED, ONE ON TABLE WITH CUP, ONE SEATED ON STOOL PLAYING PIPES (NAMED) ONE HOLDING KITHARA AND PIPES, ONE WITH KROTALA, PYRRHIC, DANCING, SWORDS, DRAPED YOUTH LEANING ON STAFF
Last Recorded Collection: Naples, Museo Archeologico Nazionale: 81398
Previous Collections:
Naples, Museo Archeologico Nazionale: H3232
Naples, Museo Archeologico Nazionale: M1209
Publication Record: Beazley, J.D., Attic Red-Figure Vase-Painters, 2nd edition (Oxford, 1963): 1032.61 Beazley, J.D., Paralipomena (Oxford, 1971): 442 Boardman, J., Athenian Red Figure Vases, The Classical Period (London, 1989): FIG.138 (PART) Borriello, M.R. et al. (eds.), Histrionica, Teatri, maschere e spettacoli nel mondo antico (Milan, 2010): 96, FIG.4.2 (COLOUR OF PART OF SH) Bundrick, S.D., Music and Image in Classical Athens (Cambridge, 2005): 88, FIG.55 (PART) Burn, L. and Glynn, R., Beazley Addenda (Oxford, 1982): 155 Cambiano, G. et al., Lo spazio letterario della Grecia Antica (Salerno, 1992): FIG.7 (PART) Carpenter, T.H., with Mannack, T. and Mendonca, M., Beazley Addenda, 2nd edition (Oxford, 1989): 318 De Caro, S., Guide Artistiche Electa Napoli, The National Archaeological Museum of Naples (Naples, 1996): 46 (COLOUR OF PART) Delavaud-Roux, M-H., Les danses armees en Grece antique (Aix-en-Provence, 1993): 140, NO.40 (PART OF S) Delavaud-Roux, M-H., Les danses pacifiques en Grece antique (Aix-en-Provence, 1994): 35, NO.5 (DRAWING OF PART) Furtwängler, A. and Reichhold, K., Griechische Vasenmalerei (Munich, 1904-32): PL.171.1 (S) International Congress of Classical Archaeology, 12, Athens, 1983. Praktika, 2-3 Tou XII Diethnous Synedriou Klasikes Archaiologias, Athena, 4-10 Sep: VOL.B, PL.29.1 (PART) Maas, M. and Snyder, J.M, Stringed Instruments of Ancient Greece (New Haven, 1989): 159, FIG.9B (S) Matheson, S.B., Polygnotos and Vase Painting in Classical Athens (Madison, 1995): 23-25, PLS.14A-D Oakley, J.H., A Guide to Scenes of Daily Life on Athenian Vases (Madison, 2020): 75, FIGS.3.4A-D (SH) Schafer, A, Unterhaltung beim griechischen Symposium (Mainz, 1997): PLS.42-43 (PARTS OF S) Schuller, W., Die Welt der Hetären. Berühmte Frauen zwischen Legende und Wirklichkeit (Stuttgart, 2008): FIG.16 (PART OF SH) Specht, E., Schön zu sein und gut zu sein, Mädchenbildung und Frauensozialisation im antiken Griechenland, Frauenforschung 9 (Vienna, 1989): 119, FIG.15 (PART) Vanhove, D. (ed.), El deporte en la Grecia antigua, la genesis del olimpismo, May 10 - August 9, 1992 (Barcelona, 1992): 31, FIG.18 (PART) Vanhove, D. (ed.), Le Sport dans la Grece Antique, Du Jeu a la Competition, 23 Janvier- 19 Avril 1992 (Gent, 1992): 31, FIG.18 (PART OF S) Yatromanolakis, D. (ed.), An Archaeology of Representations, Ancient Greek Vase-Painting and contemporary Methodologies (Athens, 2009): 296, FIG.7 (PART) van den Hoek, A., and Hermann, J.J. (Jr.), Pottery, pavements, and paradise, Iconographic and textual studies on late antiquity (Leiden, 2013): 180-182, FIG.1 (SH)
CAVI Lemma: RF hydria. From Nola. Polygnotos. Third quarter fifth. Early (Mathson).
CAVI Subject: Girls dancing and tumbling: a youth leaning on his staff; a girl dancer, a
girl flautist and a lyre player; a second pair of dancer and flautist; a girl
dancing the pyrrhiche; another playing krotala; a girl acrobat on a table; a
girl flautist and a sword dancer.
CAVI Inscriptions: To upper right of the first dancer: [---]γονη{1}. Above the first flautist:
Ελπινικε.
CAVI Footnotes: {1} so FR in the text; omitted in the dr. (and also in Matheson). Is the eta
correct?
CAVI Comments: = 3232. Much restored (Beazley). The name Elpinike may indicate a contest
between the groups. Mixed alphabet.
CAVI Number: 5458
AVI Bibliography: FR (1904–32), iii, 319-24, pl. 171 (dr.), pp. 320-21, figs. 151-54. — Bieber
(1917), 63, fig. 33. — Lippold (1954), 137f. and pl. 28,2. — ARV[2] (1963),
1032/61. — Para. (1971), 442. — Add.[2] (1989), 318. — Matheson (1995), 23,
360/67, pl. 14A-D.
CAVI / AVI Data from Henry Immerwahr's Corpus of Attic Vase Inscriptions (CAVI), updated by Rudoph Wachter's Attic Vase Inscriptions (AVI)
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