Decoration: Body: DIONYSOS, WITH TORCHES, KANTHAROS
Last Recorded Collection: Würzburg, Universität, Martin von Wagner Museum: H4906
Publication Record: American Journal of Archaeology: 43 (1939), 627, FIG.7 Berard, C. (ed.), Images et societe en Grece ancienne, L'iconographie comme methode d'analyse, Cahiers d'Archeologie Romande 36 (Lausanne, 1987): 107, FIG.11 (BD) Christopoulos, M. et al. (eds.), Light and Darkness in Ancient Greek Myth and Religion (Plymouth, 2010): 242, FIG.17.2 (BD) Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum: WURZBURG, MARTIN VON WAGNER MUSEUM 2, 38, FIG.25, PL.(2229) 28.1-2.7 View Whole CVA Plates Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae: III, PL.312, DIONYSOS 149
CAVI Lemma: RF LEKYTHOS. FROM SELINUS? UNATTRIBUTED. SECOND QUARTER FIFTH. CA. 460
(HöLSCHER).
CAVI Subject: DIONYSUS DANCING BEFORE A KANTHAROS ON THE GROUND; IN HIS RIGHT HAND (DRAWN
AS A LEFT), A BURNING TORCH.
CAVI Inscriptions: ON DIONYSUS' LEFT, DRAWN IN FACS. AS KION., VERTICALLY DOWN: καλος. IN FRONT
OF DIONYSUS, CURVED TO AVOID HIS OUTSTRETCHED ARMS AND TORCH, ONLY PARTLY KION.:
Διονυσο[ς].
CAVI Comments: NOTE THE DIVINE KALOS-NAME. IONIC ALPHABET.
CAVI Number: 8040
AVI Bibliography: BEAZLEY (1939B), 627FF., FIG. 7 (ON DIONYSUS WITH A TORCH). — ANON. (1957),
NO. 23, PL. 14. — MöBIUS (1962), NO. 52, PL. 36 (W. SCHIERING). — SCHAUENBURG
(1969A), 50 N. 42 (KALOS-INSCRIPTION). — T. HöLSCHER (1975), 137. — F. HöLSCHER,
CVA WüRZBURG 2, GERMANY 46 (1980), PL. 28,1-2,7, FIG. 25 (PROFILE); P. 38, FACS.
OF INSCRIPTION.
CAVI / AVI Data from Henry Immerwahr's Corpus of Attic Vase Inscriptions (CAVI), updated by Rudoph Wachter's Attic Vase Inscriptions (AVI)
