Decoration: A,B: DIONYSOS WITH THYRSOS AND KANTHAROS, SATYRS, ONE PLAYING PIPES, MAENADS WITH THYRSOI, SOME WITH PANTHER SKINS, ALTAR
Last Recorded Collection: Rome, Mus. Naz. Etrusco di Villa Giulia: 50459
Publication Record: Beazley, J.D., Attic Red-Figure Vase-Painters, 2nd edition (Oxford, 1963): 485.27, 1655 Beazley, J.D., Attische Vasenmaler des rotfigurigen Stils (Tübingen, 1925): 301.18 Carpenter, T.H., with Mannack, T. and Mendonca, M., Beazley Addenda, 2nd edition (Oxford, 1989): 248 Isler-Kerenyi, C., Dionysos in Classical Athens. An Understanding through Images (Leiden and Boston, 2014): 71, FIG.36 (PARTS OF A AND B)
CAVI Lemma: RF PELIKE. FROM CERVETERI. HERMONAX. SECOND QUARTER FIFTH.
CAVI Subject: A-B: DIONYSUS WITH MAENADS AND SATYRS.
CAVI Inscriptions: A, AND UNDER THE RIGHT HANDLE: TO DIONYSUS' RIGHT IS A SATYR PLAYING THE
FLUTES AND ON HIS RIGHT, UNDER THE HANDLE, ANOTHER, DANCING. BETWEEN THE TWO, A
LEFT-ALIGNED STOICH. TWO-LINER: Hερμονα[.] | εγραφσεν{1}. UNDER FOOT, `GRAFFITO
NON CHIARO' (CARUSO).
CAVI Footnotes: {1} MINGAZZINI, WHO SHOWS THE END OF THE NAME AS MISSING AND RESTORES A XI;
THE FACS. SHOWS ONLY ONE EMPTY SPACE IF BOTH WORDS ARE OF EQUAL LENGTH. BUT
RESTORING [χς] IS CERTAINLY POSSIBLE, ASSUMING THAT THE END IS REALLY MISSING.
ARV[2] HAS THE NAME COMPLETE. CARUSO ALSO READS: Ηερμονα[ξ] εγραφσεν.
CAVI Comments: FOR HERMONAX' SIGNATURES, SEE ATTSCR (1990), 102. MINGAZZINI HAS A LONG
DSCUSSION OF HERMONAX. ATTIC ALPHABET. TAILED RHO.
