Decoration: Body: MASK OF DIONYSOS BETWEEN SATYRS CARRYING MAENADS WITH CUP AND SNAKES, THYRSOS
Last Recorded Collection: Palermo, Museo Archeologico Regionale: 2023
Publication Record: Berard, D., Anodoi (Rome, 1974): PL.5, FIG.11 Haspels, C.H.E., Attic Black-figured Lekythoi (Paris, 1936): 206.3, PL.23.3 Immerwahr, H., Attic Script, A Survey (Oxford, 1990): PL.25.104 (PART) Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae: III, PL.298, DIONYSOS 27 (PART) Lissarrague, F. et al., La Cite des Images, Religion et Societe en Grece Antique (Lausanne, 1984): 150, FIG.212 Mertens, J., Attic White Ground, its development on shapes other than lekythoi (New York, 1977): PL.35.1 Revue des Etudes Anciennes: 90 (1988) 1-2, 58, FIG.9 Rizza, G. (ed.), I vasi attici ed altre ceramiche coeve in Sicilia, Atti del convegno internazionale (Catania): I, 198, FIG.14 Spivey, N. and Rasmussen, T. (eds.) Looking at Greek Vases (Cambridge, 1991): 110, FIG.45 del Corral Corredoira, P.D., Y Dioniso desposó a la rubia Ariadna, estudio iconográfico de la cerámica ática (575-300 a.C.) (Oxford, 2007): 151, FIG.79 (DRAWING OF BD)
CAVI Lemma: BF LEKYTHOS. GELA PAINTER. LATE SIXTH. 490 (BéRARD).
CAVI Subject: IN THE CENTER, A LARGE MASK OF DIONYSUS; SATYRS AND MAENADS DANCING AROUND
IT.
CAVI Inscriptions: NONSENSE LETTERS, MOSTLY NU'S, ABOVE THE HEAD AND ON BOTH SIDES. ALSO AT
LEAST TWO EPSILONS.
CAVI Comments: LISTED BY BéRARD AS PALERMO 20.23. TYPICAL LETTERING OF THE GELA PAINTER. FOR
THE GELA PAINTER'S LETTERING, SEE HASPELS, P. 80, TOP.
CAVI Number: 6034
AVI Bibliography: PHOTO. — HASPELS (1936), 79 N. 3, 80, 81, 82, 206/3, PL. 23,3A-C (FRONT AND
BOTH SIDES, ALL SHOW LETTERS). — BéRARD ET AL. (1989), 154, FIG. 212 (3 VIEWS:
FRONT AND BOTH SIDES, SHOWS LOCATION OF INSCRIPTIONS). — ATTSCR (1990), NO. 571,
FIG. 104 (AFTER HASPELS).
CAVI / AVI Data from Henry Immerwahr's Corpus of Attic Vase Inscriptions (CAVI), updated by Rudoph Wachter's Attic Vase Inscriptions (AVI)
