Collection: Vienna, Kunsthistorisches Museum
Summary: A: The retinue of DionysosB: Maenad, satyr, maenad
Ware: Attic Red Figure
Painter: Attributed to the Dinos Painter
Date: ca. 420 BC - ca. 410 BC
Dimensions: H. 0.39 m; max. diam. (rim) 0.38 m
Primary Citation: ARV2, 1152.8
Shape: Calyx krater
Period: High Classical

Decoration Description: A: Olive tree rising above groundline; Hedyoinos (labelled), leaning on a rock 3/4-view to the right, with his weight on his left hand and/or knee, wearing a white/red ivy wreath, holds a kantharos in his right hand; a maenad, Eirene (labelled), seated 3/4-view to the left, wearing a belted, sleeveless chiton, hoop earring, and a broad white taenia over an ivy wreath, cradles a double-torch in her left arm, and holds up a rhyton in her left hand; below, a nude bearded satyr, probably Dithyrambos or Gelos, seated 3/4-view to the right on a panther skin, with his left leg pulled back slightly, wearing a red/white ivy wreath, holds a lyre in his left hand, and plucks it with his right; Dione (labelled), standing 3/4-view to the right, with her weight on her left leg, wearing a patterned himation over a chiton, a sphendone, a white/red ivy wreath, and a hoop earring, holds a plate of fruit in both hands; Dionysos (labelled ), seated 3/4-view to the left on drapery (which also drapes over his lap and left arm), on the omphalos on a two-stepped base, with his head profile to the right, nude, wearing a long, broad taenia with a vertical flap, and an ivy wreath, holds a brown kantharos in his right hand, and a thyrsos upright in his left hand; below, a panther, profile to the left; above Dionysos' left shoulder, a small, nude, white Himeros (labelled), standing 3/4-view to the left, wearing a white taenia, offers a wreath or necklace to Dionysos; a maenad, Opora (labelled), standing profile to the left, also wearing a sleeveless tunic over a chiton, a broad white/red ivy wreath over a taenia, a dark red necklace, black hoop earrings, raises her left foot on rock, and holds a plate of fruit in both hands; a nude, bearded satyr, Komos (labelled), standing near frontal, with his weight on his right leg, and his head profile to the left, wearing a nebris tied in front of his neck, draped over his left arm, and a red/white ivy wreath, cradles a thyrsos in his lowered left arm, and holds his beard in his right hand; above, a maenad, Oinanthe (labelled), reclining on rock 3/4-view to the right, with her head profile to the left, wearing a belted, sleeveless chiton, and a taenia over her ivy wreath, rests her right elbow on rock, and her left hand on her knee; a bearded, nude satyr, standing 3/4-view to the left, with his right foot raised on a rock, wearing a red/white ivy wreath, extends both arms to the left (to Oinanthe).

Collection History: Formerly in the Lamberg Collection 189.

Sources Used: Matheson 1995, 214, 382 no. D9; LIMC, 7.56 s.v. Opora no. 1, pl. 44 (C. Weiss), s.v. Oinanthe no. 1 (A. Kossatz-Deissmann); LIMC, 6.94 s.v. Komos no. 20 (A. Kossatz-Deissmann); Shapiro 1993, 45-46, 232 no. 9, figs. 7-8, 72; Add2, 336-3; LIMC, 4.472 s.v. Hedyoinos no. 1 (A. Kossatz-Deissmann), pl. 279; LIMC, 3.413, s.v. Dione no. 11, pl. 295 (E. Simon), 645 s.v. Dithyrambos no. 3 (M. Kokolakis), 704 s.v. Eirene no. 11, pl. 542 (E. Simon); I. Scheibler, AncW 15 (1984) 44 Fig. 10, 48; F. Eichler, CVA Wien, Kunsthistorisches Museum 3 (1974) 11-12, pl. 105 (with previous bibliography); McPhee 1973, 3-4 no. 8, pl. 4; Hamdorf 1964 111 no. 436a; Hibbs 1961 58, fig. 64; FR 3.149 figs. 70-71; Richard Katz, Werke klassischer Kunst zum Studium der bildenden Kunste der Griechen und Römer (Stuttgart 1910) pls. 24 (86), 93 (303); CIG 8381