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)
