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)
