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)
