Decoration: A,B: SATYRS DANCING, ONE WITH THYRSOS, ONE IN DEER SKIN, MAENADS DANCING, ONE IN NEBRIS I: DIONYSOS WITH KANTHAROS, AT ALTAR, STOOL
Last Recorded Collection: Boston (MA), Museum of Fine Arts: 1900.499
Previous Collections:
Boston (MA), Museum of Fine Arts: 00.499
Publication Record: American Journal of Archaeology: 4 (1900) 185, 188, 189, PL.1 Beazley, J.D., Attic Red-Figure Vase-Painters, 2nd edition (Oxford, 1963): 1585 Beazley, J.D., Attic Red-Figure Vase-Painters, 2nd edition (Oxford, 1963): 435.89 Beazley, J.D., Attische Vasenmaler des rotfigurigen Stils (Tübingen, 1925): 205.74 Beazley, J.D., Paralipomena (Oxford, 1971): 375 Buitron-Oliver, D., Douris, A Master-Painter of Athenian Red-Figure Vases (Mainz, 1995): PL.79, NO.133 (I, A, B) Burn, L. and Glynn, R., Beazley Addenda (Oxford, 1982): 117 Carpenter, T.H., with Mannack, T. and Mendonca, M., Beazley Addenda, 2nd edition (Oxford, 1989): 238 Frontisi-Ducroux, F., Du Masque au Visage, Aspects de l'identite en Grece ancienne (Paris, 1995): PL.75 (DRAWING OF A) Heinemann, A., Der Gott des Gelages. Dionysos, Satyrn und Mänaden auf attischem Trinkgeschirr des 5. Jahrhunderts v. Chr. (Berlin, 2016): 124-125, FIGS.62-3 (DRAWINGS OF A AND B) Hoppin, A., A handbook of Attic red-figured vases signed by or attributed to the various masters of the sixth and fifth centuries B.C. (Cambridge, 1919): I, 230 Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae: VIII, PL.539, MAINADES 65 (A, B) Lissarrague, F., La cite des satyres. Une anthropologie ludique (Athenes, VIe-Ve siecle avant J.-C.) (Paris, 2013): 169, FIG.143 (A)
CAVI Lemma: RF CUP. FROM ORVIETO. DOURIS. PYTHON, POTTER{1}. FIRST QUARTER FIFTH.
490-480. MIDDLE (BEAZLEY, BUITRON-OLIVER){2}.
CAVI Subject: INT.: DIONYSUS HOLDS A KANTHAROS OVER AN ALTAR. A: THREE MAENADS AND TWO
SATYRS, ALTERNATING; ALL DANCING. B: SIMILAR.
CAVI Inscriptions: INT.: ABOVE A STOOL, ALONG THE LEFT MARGIN: Δορις εγραφσεν. A: ABOVE THE
CENTRAL GROUP OF THREE (SATYR, MAENAD, SATYR), ALONG THE TOP MARGIN:
Hιππο^δ(α)μας κα^λο^ς{3}.
CAVI Footnotes: {1} APPARENTLY ATTRIBUTED IN CB III, 22. {2} LATE IN MIDDLE (HIPPODAMAS)
PERIOD, BEAZLEY, CB. {3} HEADS AND ARMS INTERVENE. THERE ARE SPACES BEFORE δαμας
AND BEFORE THE START OF καλος. THE BRACKETED ALPHA IS SMEARED.
CAVI Comments: HISTORY: FOUND 1886 AT ORVIETO; PROPERTY OF T. WILSON, CURATOR OF THE
SMITHSONIAN, WHERE THE VASE WAS EXHIBITED 1887-99; THEN PROPERTY OF F.B. TARBELL
(SEE IDEM, AJA 4 (1900) 183 AND NSC 1886, 120); GIVEN BY TARBELL TO BOSTON. -
SOME PIECES ARE BURNT GREY. THE WORDS OF THE SECOND INSCRIPTION ARE SLIGHTLY
SEPARATED. DOTTED DELTA. TAILED RHO. ONE FOUR-STROKE SIGMA.
CAVI Number: 2696
AVI Bibliography: CB (1931–63), III, 21-23, PL. 73. — BEAZLEY (1948), 336. — ARV[2] (1963),
435/89. — PARA. (1971), 375. — ADD.[2] (1989), 238. — BUITRON-OLIVER (1995),
80/133, PL. 79.
CAVI / AVI Data from Henry Immerwahr's Corpus of Attic Vase Inscriptions (CAVI), updated by Rudoph Wachter's Attic Vase Inscriptions (AVI)
