207307, ATHENIAN, Palermo, Museo Archeologico Regionale, Palermo, Museo Archeologico Regionale, Palermo, Museo Archeologico Regionale, Palermo, Museo Archeologico Regionale, 273
Decoration: A: HERMES WITH INFANT DIONYSOS (BOTH NAMED), WOMAN OR NYMPH (ARIADNE, NAMED) B: WOMEN (NYMPHS OF NYSA), ONE WITH SPRIG, ONE WITH ALABASTRON
Last Recorded Collection: Palermo, Museo Archeologico Regionale: 1109
Previous Collections:
Palermo, Museo Archeologico Regionale: 273
Palermo, Museo Archeologico Regionale: 1631
Palermo, Museo Archeologico Regionale: 2186
Publication Record: Beazley, J.D., Attic Red-Figure Vase-Painters, 2nd edition (Oxford, 1963): 630.24 Beazley, J.D., Attische Vasenmaler des rotfigurigen Stils (Tübingen, 1925): 354.10 Beazley, J.D., Paralipomena (Oxford, 1971): 399 Braccesi, L. et al., Veder Greco, le necropoli di Agrigento, mostra internazionale, Agrigento, 2. maggio - 31. luglio 1988 (Rome, 1988): 214-215, NO.69 (A, B, PARTS) Carpenter, T.H., Dionysian Imagery in Fifth-Century Athens (Oxford, 1997): PL.24A (DRAWING OF A) Cohen, A. and Rutter, J.B. (eds.), Constructions of childhood in ancient Greece and Italy, Hesperia Supplement 41 (Princeton, 2007): 259, FIG.13.3 (DRAWING OF A) Equizzi, R., Palermo San Martino delle Scale, la collezione archeologica, storia della collezione e catalogo della ceramica (Rome, 2006): PL.37, NO.139 (A, B) Heinemann, A., Der Gott des Gelages. Dionysos, Satyrn und Mänaden auf attischem Trinkgeschirr des 5. Jahrhunderts v. Chr. (Berlin, 2016): 281, FIG.175 (PART OF A) Isler-Kerenyi, C., Dionysos in Classical Athens. An Understanding through Images (Leiden and Boston, 2014): 109, FIG.58 (A) Monumenti inediti pubblicati dall'Instituto di Corrispondenza Archeologica (Rome, 1829-91): II, PL.17 Terranova, C. (ed.), La presenza dei bambini nelle religioni del Mediterraneo antico (Roma, 2014): 230, FIG.3.1 (A)
CAVI Lemma: RF pelike. From Agrigento. Chicago Painter. Second quarter fifth.
CAVI Subject: A: Hermes handing the infant Dionysus to a nymph. B: two nymphs of Nysa.
CAVI Inscriptions: A: hερμες. Διονυσος. The nymph: Αριαγνε{1}.
CAVI Footnotes: {1} G. Neumann: `die sehr Heilige.' Neumann (with Kretschmer (1894), 198-99)
compares the heroine Ariadne, who has undergone a secondary sound change: gn >
dn (αγνος > αδνος). The spelling with gamma occurs also on Syracuse 22,177, RF
pelike by the Villa Giulia Painter, AttScr (1990), no. 710, and elsewhere. In
AttScr (1990), 103 n. 22, I wondered if the gamma could not be a dotted delta
with the dot omitted; that is perhaps unlikely as the spelling is not
infrequent. For Αριαγνη, see also Kretschmer (1894), 198-99.
CAVI Comments: Fränkel and K.-D. list `Ariagne' as a maenad, but she is a nymph at Nysa,
where Dionysus was brought up.
