Attributed To:Near POLYGNOTOS by BEAZLEY MIDAS P by BEAZLEY
Decoration: A: MIDAS, (NAMED) WITH POINTED EARS, WITH SCEPTRE SEATED ON CHAIR, SILENOS (NAMED) WITH HANDS TIED, COLUMN, WOMAN (NAMED, EUROPA) WITH FAN, MAN IN THRACIAN COSTUME WITH STAFF B: SATYRS, MAENAD WITH THYRSOS
Last Recorded Collection: London, British Museum: E447
Publication Record: Annali dell'Istituto di Correspondenza Archeologica: 1844, PL.H (A) Antike Kunst: 31 (1988), PL.19.1 (A) Beazley, J.D., Attic Red-Figure Vase-Painters, 2nd edition (Oxford, 1963): 1035.3 Beazley, J.D., Attische Vasenmaler des rotfigurigen Stils (Tübingen, 1925): 398.3 Boardman, J., Athenian Red Figure Vases, The Classical Period (London, 1989): FIG.139 (A) Carpenter, T. and Faraone, C.A., (eds.), Masks of Dionysos (Cornell, 1993): 218, FIG.18 (DRAWING OF A) Classical Antiquity: 26 (2007) 258, FIG.20 (A) Cohen, B. (ed.), Not the Classical Ideal, Athens and the Construction of the Other in Greek Art (Leiden, Boston and Köln, 2000): 347, FIG.13.5 (A) Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum: LONDON, BRITISH MUSEUM 3, III.Ic.9, PL.(187) 22.2A-C View Whole CVA Plates Fraser, J., Luxury and power, Persia to Greece, British Museum (London, 2023): 115, FIG.114 (COLOUR OF A) Heinemann, A., Der Gott des Gelages. Dionysos, Satyrn und Mänaden auf attischem Trinkgeschirr des 5. Jahrhunderts v. Chr. (Berlin, 2016): 95, FIG.40 (A) Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae: VIII, PL.572, MIDAS 38 (A) Lissarrague, F., La cite des satyres. Une anthropologie ludique (Athenes, VIe-Ve siecle avant J.-C.) (Paris, 2013): 133, FIG.108 (COLOUR OF A) Matheson, S.B., Polygnotos and Vase Painting in Classical Athens (Madison, 1995): 117-118, PLS.99A-B (PARTS OF A) Settis, S. (ed.), I Greci, Storia Cultura Arte Societa 2, Una storia greca, 1.Formazione (Turin, 1996): 1288, FIG.4 (A)
CAVI Lemma: RF stamnos. From Chiusi. Midas Painter (Group of Polygnotos){1}. Third
quarter fifth.
CAVI Subject: A: Silenus led before Midas: a Phrygian guard, Silenus, Midas (with ass'
ears) seated, a woman facing him. B: maenad, young satyr and satyr.
CAVI Inscriptions: A: Σιλενος. Μιδας. In the field: Μιδας [κ]αλος{2}. Ευρωπα.
CAVI Footnotes: {1} "Near Polygnotos himself", Beazley. {2} note that ARV[2] does not list
this kalos-name: treat as mythical. Cf. London E 450.
CAVI Comments: Done from CVA. Mixed alphabet.
CAVI Number: 4596
AVI Bibliography: Kretschmer (1894), 132. — C.H. Smith in BM Cat. E (1896), 274-75. — C.
Fränkel (1912), 20 n. 5. — H.B. Walters, CVA London 3, Great Britain 4 (1927),
III I c, pl. 22,2a-c. — ARV[2] (1963), 1035/3. — Add.[2] (1989), 318. — Boardman
(1989), fig. 139. — Kossatz-Deissmann (1991), 169 (Silenos 4). — Matheson
(1995), 116 and 118, 187, 434/M3, pl. 99, A-B (details of A).
CAVI / AVI Data from Henry Immerwahr's Corpus of Attic Vase Inscriptions (CAVI), updated by Rudoph Wachter's Attic Vase Inscriptions (AVI)