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)
