Decoration: Body: CULT, ANTHESTERIA, YOUTHS, ONE DRAPED DRINKING FROM SKYPHOS, ONE WITH OINOCHOE, DRAPED MAN WITH BRANCHES AT TABLE WITH BRANCHES AND CLOTH, MASK OF DIONYSOS AT ALTAR, KRATER
Last Recorded Collection: Athens, 3rd Ephoreia of Prehistoric and Classical Antiquities: 3500
Publication Record: Avramidou, A. and Demetriou, D. (eds.), Approaching the Ancient Artifact, Representation, Narrative, and Function. A Festschrift in Honor of H. Alan Shapiro (Berlin and Boston, 2014): 275, FIG.3 (BD) Estienne, S. et al. (eds.), Figures de dieux. Construire le divin en images (Rennes, 2014): PL.27 (COLOUR OF BD) Heinemann, A., Der Gott des Gelages. Dionysos, Satyrn und Mänaden auf attischem Trinkgeschirr des 5. Jahrhunderts v. Chr. (Berlin, 2016): 459, FIG.310 (DRAWING OF BD) Norskov, V. et al. (eds.), The World of Greek Vases (Rome, 2009): 57, FIG.10 (DRAWING OF BD) Oakley, J.H. et al., Athenian Potters and Painters, The Conference Proceedings (Oxford, 1997): 473-474, 477-480, FIGS.1-3, 7-11 (INCLUDING PROFILE) Schmidt, S., Rhetorische Bilder auf attischen Vasen, Visuelle Kommunikation im 5. Jahrhundert v. Chr. (Berlin, 2005): 184, FIG.94 (DRAWING OF BD)
CAVI Lemma: RF oinochoe (chous). From Athens, Piraeus Street no. 57, tomb 11{1}. Eretria
Painter. 435-430 (Tzachou-Alexandri).
CAVI Subject: Festival in honor of Dionysus: at left, a pillar(?) on a three-stepped base,
with a mask of Donysus hung on it, with laurel branches above and below; on the
floor, an ivy-wreathed column krater; a frontal youth, ivy-wreathed, drinking
from a skyphos and holding out his left hand to receive willow branches from the
priest (who also wears willow branches on his head); a table with a liknon,
partly covered with a cloth and with laurel branches projecting; a bearded man
(priest) to left, holding out some willow branches; at right a small boy,
ivy-wreathed and naked, to left, with a large chous.
CAVI Inscriptions: In white (which has disappeared): above the heads: the youth: Επιμεθευς. The
priest: Προμεθε[υ]ς{2}.
CAVI Footnotes: {1} from the ancient cemetery at the Erion gate. {2} printed letters, p. 477
of the text, not visible in the pictures.
CAVI Comments: T.-A. refers the scene to the Anthesteria, in part because of the chous
shape. She thinks the liknon contains a phallos wrapped in cloth (p. 484). For
the relation of Prometheus and Epimetheus to Dionysus see T.-A. 484-85; she
thinks they here represent a youth and a priest, the youth undergoing a ceremony
of initiation to be admitted to adulthood. She thinks of the child at right as
an oinochoos, a special request of the family who later placed the chous in the
tomb [sic?]. The ceremony she places in the Dionysion εν Λιμναις on the 12th of
Anthesterion, the day of the Choes. - The branches on Prometheus' head and those
tendered to Epimetheus are small-leaved willow branches, while those near the
mask of Dionysus and in the liknon have larger leaves with added white; they are
considered to be laurel.
CAVI Number: 1880a
AVI Bibliography: Willemsen (1968), 83. — Tzachou-Alexandri (1997), 473-80, figs. 1-3 and 7-11
(figs. 9-10 are profiles, fig. 11 (= cover, in color) is a dr. not showing
inscriptions).
CAVI / AVI Data from Henry Immerwahr's Corpus of Attic Vase Inscriptions (CAVI), updated by Rudoph Wachter's Attic Vase Inscriptions (AVI)
