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A Dancing Maenad

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 October 2013

Extract

To his account of the sculptures in the collection of the Duke of Bedford at Woburn Abbey, Michaelis appended a brief mention of the vases in the Duke's possession, singling out ‘one of a Bacchante dancing merrily, for whom a Satyr in a graceful attitude blows the flute.’ This vase was in the British Museum for a few weeks some years ago, and I happened to see it there: his Grace very kindly permitted me to have it photographed, to copy the pictures, and to publish it here (Pls. XVII, XVIII): for which I would beg him to accept my thanks.

It is a vase of a common type—a Nolan amphora—but of quite unusual charm. The picture on the front—the dancing maenad, the boy satyr playing the flute—is complete in itself; but the singing woman on the back of the vase is not a mere ‘mantle figure,’ she is connected with the group on the front, and blends with them into a trio—music, dance, and song.

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Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © The Council, British School at Athens 1930

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References

page 109 note 1 Ancient Marbles in Great Britain, p. 753.

page 109 note 2 Attic Vase Paintings in Boston, Pl. 29, No. 62. Already figured in my Vases in America, p. 167.

I have given a list of the Phiale painter's works in Att. V., pp. 381–87 and 477, and additions in Vases in Poland, pp. 50–53 and 80. Since then the three Boston vases have been published by Caskey, in Attic Vases in BostonGoogle Scholar; the London neck-amphorae, Nolans, hydria, the Oxford Nolan, the Cambridge Nolan, the Louvre bell-krater, in the respective sections of Corpus Vasorum; two of the Leningrad Nolans by MissPeredolski, in J.H.S. xlviiiGoogle Scholar; the Berlin Circe Nolan in Schaal, R.f. Fig. 46; the Athens cup-fragment (D 42, not D 4) in Graef and Langlotz, ii. Pl. 31, 386. Add a Nolan amphora in Naples (see below), and fragments of others in Florence (lower part of a figure wearing chiton and himation) and Athens (Athena and Marsyas: Graef and Langlotz, ii. Pl. 49, 632), fragments of bell-kraters in Syracuse (24129), and Florence (B, woman), hydriai in Copenhagen (girl dancing, womanfluting, and youth: C. V. Cop. Pl. 154, 3 and Pl. 155, 2), and Mykonos (three women), a fragment of one in Palermo (girl dancing: from Selinus), lekythoi in Syracuse (44284, Hermes pursuing a woman), Athens (woman with mirror and woman with alabastron), a fragment of one in Berlin private possession (head of a woman: phot. Germ. Inst. Rome, varia, 459, 3), a pyxis in Athens (1588, CC 1552, phot. Germ. Inst. Athens, N.M. 775). My No. 9, as I learn from Prof. Lippold, is now in Erlangen. The rhyton, my No. 75, is now in Toronto (Robinson, D. M., Greek Vases at Toronto, Pl. 56, 360Google Scholar): it is not, I think, by the Phiale painter, but by the Marlay painter.

page 110 note 1 Taken with a few corrections from the drawing by Simoës da Fonseca in de Ridder's catalogue, p. 275. The reverse figure, ibid. Pl. 12, No. 375. No. 13 in my list, Att. V. p. 382.

page 111 note 1 Tillyard, , Hope Vases, Pl. 23Google Scholar, No. 140: No. 1 in my list, Att. V. p. 453.

page 111 note 2 Faina, 36: phot. Alinari, 32465: No. 32 in my list, Att. V. p. 213.

page 111 note 3 A.J.A. 1900, p. 188–9Google Scholar, Hoppin, whence, R.f. i. p. 230Google Scholar: No. 74 in my list, Att. V. p. 205.

page 111 note 4 W.V. A Pl. 4, Hoppin, whence, R.f. ii. p. 41Google Scholar; from photographs, Pfuhl, Malerei, Fig. 438Google Scholar: No. 26 in my list, Att. V. p. 213.

page 111 note 5 F.R. Pl. 49: No. 12 in my list, Att. V. p. 176.

page 111 note 6 Bull. Metr. Mus. 1930, p. 137Google Scholar: attributed by Miss Richter.

page 111 note 7 Passeri, , Picturae Etruscorum, Pl. 210Google Scholar.

page 111 note 8 Hearst collection: J.H.S. xlii. Pl. 2, and Berliner Maler, Pl. 21: No. 2 in my lists.

page 111 note 9 Boston, 26.61: Caskey, , Attic Vases in Boston, Pl. 8, No. 19Google Scholar.

page 111 note 10 Louvre, G 151: Mon. 1856, Pl. 14.

page 112 note 1 Raoul-Rochette, Pl. 3, 1: No. 23 in my list, Att. V. p. 383.

page 112 note 2 3083: not in my previous lists. I am indebted to Dr. A. Maiuri for permission to publish the figure.