Decoration: A: BIRTH OF DIONYSOS WITH TORCHES (NAMED ?), ZEUS SEATED ON STOOL WITH SCEPTRE, HERA (NAMED) B: HERAKLES AND THE BULL, ATHENA, INSCRIPTIONS
Last Recorded Collection: Paris, Cabinet des Medailles: 219
Previous Collections:
Paris, private, Duke of Luynes: 685
Publication Record: Beazley, J.D., Attic Black-Figure Vase-Painters (Oxford, 1956): 509.120 Bollettino d'Arte: 36 (1951) 8, FIG.9 (A) Christopoulos, M. et al. (eds.), Light and Darkness in Ancient Greek Myth and Religion (Plymouth, 2010): 239, FIG.17.1 (DRAWING OF A) Colonna, C., De rouge et de noir, Les vases grecs de la collection de Luynes (Paris, 2013): 52, NO.24 (COLOUR OF A AND B) Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum: PARIS, BIBLIOTHEQUE NATIONALE 2, 55-56, PLS.(461-462) 75.6-7, 76.2-3 View Whole CVA Plates Haspels, C.H.E., Attic Black-figured Lekythoi (Paris, 1936): 238.120 Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae: IV, PL.424, HERA 322 (A) Lissarrague, F., Greek Vases, The Athenians and their Images (2001): 176, 200, FIGS.135, 158 (COLOUR OF A AND B) Mitteilungen des Deutschen Archäologischen Instituts, Athenische Abteilung: 112 (1997) PL.18.1 (B) Studi Etruschi: 79 (2016) PL.30A (A) Taras, Rivista di Archeologia: 47-50 (2004-2005) 63, FIG.6 (A) Tsingarida, A. (ed.), Shapes and Uses of Greek Vases (7th-4th centuries B.C.), Proceedings of the Symposium held at the Universite Libre de Bruxelles, 27-29 April 2006 (Brussels, 2009): 56, FIG.8A (PROFILE)
CAVI Lemma: BF NECK AMPHORA. DIOSPHOS PAINTER. EARLY FIFTH.
CAVI Subject: A: HERACLES AND THE BULL, WITH ATHENA. B: THE BIRTH OF DIONYSUS, WITH
HERA{1}.
CAVI Inscriptions: A: NONSENSE INSCRIPTIONS: ON HERACLES' UPPER LEFT: λχυλχ(ο)χ. ON HIS LOWER
LEFT: (χ)εχλ. ON HERA'S LOWER RIGHT: χεχλχ. B: BEHIND ZEUS' HEAD: καλο(ς){2}. TO
RIGHT OF THE BOY DIONYSUS: Διὸς φο̅́ς{3}. BEHIND HERA'S HEAD: Hερα.
CAVI Footnotes: {1} THE SUBJECT IS NOT CERTAIN, BUT SEE FUHRMANN. {2} SIDEWAYS SIGMA. {3} DE
RIDDER SUGGESTS καλὸς Διὸς φώς AND COMPARES AN ETYMOLOGY OF DIONYSUS. HASPELS 96
READS καλος WITH REVERSED THREE-STROKE SIGMA.
CAVI Comments: A SMALL AMPHORA. THE INSCRIPTIONS ON A AND B PROBABLY BY DIFFERENT HANDS. -
HASPELS 96-97 N. 6 IS A LONG DISCUSSION BY BEAZLEY OF THE THREE POSSIBLE
MEANINGS OF ΔΙΟΣΦΟΣ (WITH SIGMA 1); Διος φως, διος φως, AND Διος φως. BEAZLEY
ARGUES AGAINST THE GENERALLY ACCEPTED Διος φως, `MAN OF ZEUS', SINCE DIONYSUS IS
NOT A MAN BUT A GOD; THE SECOND HAS THE SAME PROBLEM; THE THIRD, SUGGESTED BY
MINERVINI, IS PERHAPS NO MORE UNLIKELY THAN THE OTHER TWO. "IT IS ALWAYS
POSSIBLE, OF COURSE, THAT THE PAINTER MEANT TO WRITE Διονυσος BUT LET HIS
THOUGHTS WANDER HALFWAY-THROUGH." -AN IMPORTANT VASE, SINCE THE INSCRIPTIONS ON
A AND B DIFFER SO MUCH THAT THEY CAN HARDLY BE BY ONE HAND.
CAVI Number: 6088
AVI Bibliography: PHOTO. — CIG 4 (1855–77), P. XVIII. — KRETSCHMER (1890), 29. — KRETSCHMER
(1894), 119. — DE RIDDER (1902), I, 127-28. — M. LAMBRINO, CVA BIBLIOTHèQUE
NATIONALE 2, FRANCE 10 (1931), III H F, PL. 75,6-7 (BIBL.). — HASPELS (1936), 96
AND NN. 5 AND *6, *238/120 (BIBL.). — FUHRMANN (1950–1), 110 FF., FIG. 4. — ABV
(1956), 509/120. — ARV[2] (1963), 300. — ADD.[2] (1989), 127.
CAVI / AVI Data from Henry Immerwahr's Corpus of Attic Vase Inscriptions (CAVI), updated by Rudoph Wachter's Attic Vase Inscriptions (AVI)
