Attributed To: LEAGROS GROUP by BEAZLEY SIMOS GROUP by BEAZLEY
Decoration: Body: DIONYSOS MOUNTING CHARIOT WITH KENTRON AND KANTHAROS, WOMAN SEMELE, BOTH NAMED, GOAT, NONSENSE INSCRIPTIONS (?) Shoulder: CHARIOT RACE, NONSENSE INSCRIPTIONS
Last Recorded Collection: Berlin, Antikensammlung: F1904
Previous Collections:
Unknown, private, Dorow
Berlin, Pergamonmuseum: F1904
Publication Record: Beazley, J.D., Attic Black-Figure Vase-Painters (Oxford, 1956): 364.54, 356 Carpenter, T.H., with Mannack, T. and Mendonca, M., Beazley Addenda, 2nd edition (Oxford, 1989): 97 Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum: BERLIN, ANTIKENSAMMLUNG 20, 58-60, FIGS.7A, 7B, 7C, 7D, BEILAGE 15.1, PLS.(5730-5731,5745) 46.1-3, 47.1-2, 61.2 View Whole CVA Plates Gerhard, E., Etruskische und kampanische Vasenbilder (Berlin, 1843): PLS.4-5 Giudice, E. and Giudice, G. (eds.), Studi Miscellanei di Ceramografia Greca VII (Catania, 2021): 169, PL.4.6, 171, PL.6.10A (COLOUR OF BD, DRAWING OF PART OF BD)) Johnston, A., Trademarks on Greek Vases (Warminster, 1979): 127.5E.20, 157.9F.26 Jurriaans-Helle, G., Composition in Athenian Black-Figure Vase-Painting, The Chariot in Profile Type Scene. Babesch Supplementa 41 (Leuven, Paris, and Bristol, 2021): PL.34 Kerenyi, K., Dionysos (London, 1976): FIG.47 Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae: VII, PL.533, SEMELE 22 (BD) Morard, T., Horizontalite et Verticalite, Le bandeau humain et le bandeau divin chez le Peintre de Darius (Mainz, 2009): PL.110.1 (BD, PART OF S) Moraw, S., Die Mänade in der attischen Vasenmalerei des 6. und 5. Jahrhunderts v.Chr. (Mainz, 1998): PL.4.13 (BD) Schlesier, R. (ed.), A Different God? Dionysos and Ancient Polytheism (Berlin and Boston, 2011): PL.40 (COLOUR OF BD) Schlesier, R. and Schwarzmaier, A. (eds.), Dionysos, Verwandlung und Ekstase (Berlin, 2008): 24, 168, NO.18, FIG.6 (COLOUR OF BD AND PART OF S) Shapiro, H.A., Art and Cult under the Tyrants in Athens (Mainz, 1989): PL.40C
CAVI Lemma: BF hydria. From Vulci. Simos Group (Leagros Group). Last quarter sixth.
510-500.
CAVI Subject: Shoulder: race of two chariots. Body: Dionysus mounting chariot, with
Semele{1}.
CAVI Inscriptions: Shoulder: under the left team of horses: υεσισ{2}. Under the other team:
σλδι̣οο{3}. Body: to Dionysus' right: ινθ(.)υ{4}. To Semele's right, curving:
Διονυσος̣. To her lower right: Σεμ(ε)λε. Under the foot: Dip.: NΥ ΙΙΙ. Gr.:
ligature with beta. See Johnston (1979), 157/9F 26 and 127/5E 20 = Hackl (1909),
no. 518.
CAVI Footnotes: {1} Dionysus about to drive his mother Semele to Olympus (Shapiro). {2} so
the facs. in Furtw., who says: "etwa κλεσις." {3} unclear letters. {4} facs.
Gerhard: Θυωνη, wrongly.
CAVI Comments: The vase is mentioned in Heydemann. For the Simos Group, see ABV 356. The
lettering is very casual and not well preserved. Neugebauer (in Führer) calls
the inscriptions "Namensbeischriften."
