Decoration: A: SATYR RECLINING ON ROCK, THYRSOS B: NAKED WOMAN SEATED ON ROCK (NYMPH)
Last Recorded Collection: Brussels, Musées Royaux d'Art et d'Histoire: R258
Publication Record: Avramidou, A. and Demetriou, D. (eds.), Approaching the Ancient Artifact, Representation, Narrative, and Function. A Festschrift in Honor of H. Alan Shapiro (Berlin and Boston, 2014): 582, FIGS.34-35 (COLOUR OF A AND B) Beazley, J.D., Attic Red-Figure Vase-Painters, 2nd edition (Oxford, 1963): 973.18 Beazley, J.D., Attische Vasenmaler des rotfigurigen Stils (Tübingen, 1925): 150.16 Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum: BRUSSELS, MUSEES ROYAUX D'ART ET D'HISTOIRE (CINQUANTENAIRE) 2, III.I.C.10, PL.(072) 19.2A.2B View Whole CVA Plates Furtwängler, A. and Reichhold, K., Griechische Vasenmalerei (Munich, 1904-32): PL.163.3 (A, B) Heinemann, A., Der Gott des Gelages. Dionysos, Satyrn und Mänaden auf attischem Trinkgeschirr des 5. Jahrhunderts v. Chr. (Berlin, 2016): 408, FIG.269 (DRAWINGS OF A AND B)
Notes: Colour images copyright Royal Museums of Art and History, Brussels (CC BY-SA.4)
CAVI Collection: Brussels, Musées Royaux R 258.
CAVI Lemma: RF skyphos. Lewis Painter (Polygnotos II). Second quarter fifth.
CAVI Subject: A: satyr leaning against a rock (he has seen the nymph on B). B: a naked
nymph undressed for the bath (she has seen the satyr; frontal head).
CAVI Inscriptions: A: to left of the satyr's forehead: κ(α)λ(ο)ς. B: to left and right of the
nymph's head: κα^λη.
CAVI Comments: Mixed alphabet. Attic lambda. Omicron a dot. Four-stroke sigma (shape of a
reversed 3). The lettering on A is small and not precise, that on B is large and
clear: by different hands?
CAVI Number: 2924
AVI Bibliography: FR (1904–32), iii, 277, pl.163,3 (dr.). — F. Mayence and V. Verhoogen, CVA
Brussels 2, Belgium 2 (1937), III I c, pl. 19,2. — H.R.W. Smith (1939), ..../17
(not ill.). — ARV[2] (1963), 973/18.
CAVI / AVI Data from Henry Immerwahr's Corpus of Attic Vase Inscriptions (CAVI), updated by Rudoph Wachter's Attic Vase Inscriptions (AVI)
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