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205135, ATHENIAN, Boston (MA), Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (MA), Museum of Fine Arts, 00.499

  • Vase Number: 205135
  • Fabric: ATHENIAN
  • Technique: RED-FIGURE
  • Shape Name: CUP
  • Provenance: ITALY, ORVIETO
  • Date: -500 to -450
  • Inscriptions: DOURIS
    HIPPODAMAS
    Kalos/Kale: HIPPODAMASKALOS
    Signature: DORISEGRAPHSEN
  • Attributed To: DOURIS by SIGNATURE
  • Decoration: A,B: SATYRS DANCING, ONE WITH THYRSOS, ONE WEARING DEER SKIN, MAENADS DANCING, ONE IN NEBRIS
    I: DIONYSOS WITH KANTHAROS, AT ALTAR, STOOL
  • Current Collection: Boston (MA), Museum of Fine Arts: 1900.499
  • Previous Collections:
    • Boston (MA), Museum of Fine Arts: 00.499
  • Publication Record: American Journal of Archaeology: 4 (1900) 185, 188, 189, PL.1
    Beazley, J.D., Attic Red-Figure Vase-Painters, 2nd edition (Oxford, 1963): 1585
    Beazley, J.D., Attic Red-Figure Vase-Painters, 2nd edition (Oxford, 1963): 435.89
    Beazley, J.D., Attische Vasenmaler des rotfigurigen Stils (Tübingen, 1925): 205.74
    Beazley, J.D., Paralipomena (Oxford, 1971): 375
    Buitron-Oliver, D., Douris, A Master-Painter of Athenian Red-Figure Vases (Mainz, 1995): PL.79, NO.133 (I, A, B)
    Burn, L. and Glynn, R., Beazley Addenda (Oxford, 1982): 117
    Carpenter, T.H., with Mannack, T. and Mendonca, M., Beazley Addenda, 2nd edition (Oxford, 1989): 238
    Frontisi-Ducroux, F., Du Masque au Visage, Aspects de l'identite en Grece ancienne (Paris, 1995): PL.75 (DRAWING OF A)
    Heinemann, A., Der Gott des Gelages. Dionysos, Satyrn und Mänaden auf attischem Trinkgeschirr des 5. Jahrhunderts v. Chr. (Berlin, 2016): 124-125, FIGS.62-3 (DRAWINGS OF A AND B)
    Hoppin, A., A handbook of Attic red-figured vases signed by or attributed to the various masters of the sixth and fifth centuries B.C. (Cambridge, 1919): I, 230
    Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae: VIII, PL.539, MAINADES 65 (A, B)
    Lissarrague, F., La cite des satyres. Une anthropologie ludique (Athenes, VIe-Ve siecle avant J.-C.) (Paris, 2013): 169, FIG.143 (A)
  • AVI Web: https://www.avi.unibas.ch/DB/searchform.html?ID=2843
  • AVI Record Number: 2696
  • LIMC ID: 4965
  • LIMC Web: http://ark.dasch.swiss/ark:/72163/080e-73e9f0a794cd5-1
  • CAVI Collection: Boston 00.499.
  • CAVI Lemma: RF cup. From Orvieto. Douris. Python, potter{1}. First quarter fifth. 490-480. Middle (Beazley, Buitron-Oliver){2}.
  • CAVI Subject: Int.: Dionysus holds a kantharos over an altar. A: three maenads and two satyrs, alternating; all dancing. B: similar.
  • CAVI Inscriptions: Int.: above a stool, along the left margin: Δορις εγραφσεν. A: above the central group of three (satyr, maenad, satyr), along the top margin: hιππο^δ(α)μας κα^λο^ς{3}.
  • CAVI Footnotes: {1} apparently attributed in CB iii, 22. {2} late in middle (Hippodamas) period, Beazley, CB. {3} heads and arms intervene. There are spaces before δαμας and before the start of καλος. The bracketed alpha is smeared.
  • CAVI Comments: History: found 1886 at Orvieto; property of T. Wilson, curator of the Smithsonian, where the vase was exhibited 1887-99; then property of F.B. Tarbell (see idem, AJA 4 (1900) 183 and NSc 1886, 120); given by Tarbell to Boston. - Some pieces are burnt grey. The words of the second inscription are slightly separated. Dotted delta. Tailed rho. One four-stroke sigma.
  • CAVI Number: 2696
  • AVI Bibliography: CB (1931–63), iii, 21-23, pl. 73. — Beazley (1948), 336. — ARV[2] (1963), 435/89. — Para. (1971), 375. — Add.[2] (1989), 238. — Buitron-Oliver (1995), 80/133, pl. 79.
  • CAVI / AVI Data from Henry Immerwahr's Corpus of Attic Vase Inscriptions (CAVI), updated by Rudoph Wachter's Attic Vase Inscriptions (AVI)
  • Pleiades URI: https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/639959859
  • Coordinates: 42.718642,12.114315
  • Pleiades Coordinates: 42.7225286,12.1198882
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