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)
