Attributed To:Near LYDOS by UNKNOWN LYDOS by UNKNOWN
Decoration: A,B: SATYRS AND MAENADS (ONE IN NEBRIS) DANCING, NONSENSE INSCRIPTIONS
Last Recorded Collection: Basel, Antikenmuseum und Sammlung Ludwig: BS424
Previous Collections:
Rome, market
New York (N.Y.), market, Hecht
-, unknown
Basel, Antikenmuseum und Sammlung Ludwig: BS424.1965
Publication Record: Antike Kunst: 27 (1984), PL.17.1 (PART OF A) Bignasca, A. et al., Sex, Drugs und Leierspiel, Rausch und Ekstase in der Antike, 20. Oktober 2011 bis 29. Januar 2012 (Basel, 2011): 105, NO.90 (COLOUR OF A) Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum: BASEL, ANTIKENMUSEUM 1, 85-86, PL.(174) 28.1-4 View Whole CVA Plates Frontisi-Ducroux, F., Du Masque au Visage, Aspects de l'identite en Grece ancienne (Paris, 1995): PL.61 (PART OF A) Isler-Kerenyi, C., Civilizing Violence, Satyrs on 6th-century Greek Vases (Fribourg and Göttingen, 2004): 39, FIG.21 (DRAWING OF PART) Isler-Kerenyi, C., Dionysos in Archaic Greece, An Understanding through Images (Leiden, 2007): FIG.64 (A) Kachler, K.G., Zur Entstehung und Entwicklung der griechischen Theatermaske (Basel, 1991): 32, FIG.3 (A) PHOTOGRAPH(S) IN THE BEAZLEY ARCHIVE: 16 (A, B, PARTS OF A AND B) Tiverios, M.A., Ho Lydos kai to ergo tou (Athens, 1976): PLS.96, 97 (A, B)
CAVI Lemma: BF AMPHORA. VERY CLOSE TO LYDOS (CVA). THIRD QUARTER SIXTH. CA. 550 (CVA).
CAVI Subject: A: THREE SATYRS AND TWO MAENADS DANCING (THE CENTRAL SATYR HAS A FRONTAL
FACE). B: SIMILAR, BUT NO FRONTAL FACE.
CAVI Inscriptions: NONSENSE: A: TEN STRINGS OF LETTERS: E.G.: BETWEEN THE CENTRAL SATYR'S LEGS:
νεο^νο^νι^α̣σ{1}. TO LEFT OF THE SAME SATYR: ονεολ... {2}. ABOVE THE CENTRAL
SATYR'S LEFT ARM: νεονεονυσ. TO RIGHT OF THE CENTRAL SATYR'S RAISED LEFT LEG:
νεονεονε^πο. B: SIMILAR: EIGHT INSCRIPTIONS.
CAVI Footnotes: {1} THE ALPHA COULD BE A RHO. {2} CUT OF BY THE PHOTO, PL. 28,4.
CAVI Comments: THE FACS. IN CVA IS NOT ACCURATE. SOME INSCRIPTIONS SEEM TO IMITATE NAMES,
CF. MY READINGS FROM THE POSTCARD WHICH ARE SOMEWHAT BETTER: A: ... TO LEFT OF
LEFT SATYR'S BACK, VERTICALLY DOWN: 13 LETTERS. TO RIGHT OF HIS LEFT LEG,
CURVING DOWNWARD: σονσ̣οπνεσ. TO RIGHT OF LEFT MAENAD'S CHEST, UNDER HER RAISED
LEFT ARM, DIAGONALLY DOWNWARD, NOT FACING HER: [--]ονεου̣[...]σ̣, RETR. BETWEEN
MIDDLE SATYR'S LEGS, VERTICALLY DOWN: νεονονι̣οσ. TO RIGHT OF HIS RIGHT ARM,
DIAGONALLY DOWNWARD: νεονεονυσ. TO RIGHT OF HIS LEGS, VERTICALLY DOWNWARD,
FACING HIM: νεονεονεπο. COMPLETE. TO RIGHT OF RIGHT MAENAD'S CHEST, UNDER HER
RAISED LEFT ARM, DOWNWARD: νει̣εονενσ. TO RIGHT OF RIGHT SATYR'S CHEST,
DOWNWARD: 6+ LETTERS. TO RIGHT OF HIS LEGS, VERTICALLY DOWN: 9 LETTERS.
CAVI Number: 1978
AVI Bibliography: PHOTO (POST CARD). — SCHEFOLD (1966), NO. 102,1. — TIVERIOS (1976), 130/31. —
J. DESCOEUDRES, CVA BASEL 1, SWITZERLAND 4 (1981), PL. 28, P. 86 (FACS. OF ONE
INSCR.). — ATTSCR (1990), NO. 124.
CAVI / AVI Data from Henry Immerwahr's Corpus of Attic Vase Inscriptions (CAVI), updated by Rudoph Wachter's Attic Vase Inscriptions (AVI)
