Baltimore, Hopkins AIA B6
Kylix of the Proto-Panaetian Group
ca. 490 B.C.
B 6. Baltimore Society AIA, formerly Hartwig Collection. "Chiusi."
Ht, 8 cm; diam with handles, 26.6 cm; diam rim, 20 cm; diam foot, 7.8 cm. Mended
from many pieces.
Tondo is bordered by narrow reserved band. Satyr seated to his left
on wineskin, torso three-quarters frontal. Left knee is raised, with lower leg
extended; right knee is bent, with lower leg drawn back. Elbow bent with left
hand uplifted over head. Right hand in front of chest; fingers of both hands
outstretched. Head is turned back in left profile and wears fillet with long
ends hanging down over torso. Inscribed in field:
ΠΑΝΑΙΤΙΟΣ ΚΑ[Λ]ΟΣ; inscribed on
wineskin:
Κ[Α]ΛΟΣ.
Relief contour throughout, except for reserved outline of beard and
incised contour of back of head. Dilute glaze for interior markings. Added red
for fillet and lettering.
It was Furtwängler who first suggested that the Panaitios
Painter was really the youthful Onesimos.
1 This identification was endorsed by Beazley in his revised edition of
ARV2, where the vases previously assigned
to the two artists were grouped as the work of the single painter Onesimos.
2 Beazley listed our vase as one of nine cups that he believed were
"specially akin" to the early work of Onesimos and perhaps from his own hand.
3 Hence Beazley termed this group "Proto-Panaetian."
Onesimos was a prolific and skilled painter who specialized in cups,
which were often supplied to him by the renowned potter and painter Euphronios.
Onesimos's style is distinguished by the overall mastery of draughtsmanship, and
particularly by his elegant patterns of elongated fingers and tails.
4
The motif of the satyr astride a wineskin appears frequently in Attic
vasepainting, as does the similar image of a satyr riding a dolphin. Davies
reminds us of the traditional association of wine and the sea,
5 and certainly this animated figure would have bobbed in a lively manner
once this cup was filled with wine and jostled by an eager symposiast.
Bibliography
Klein 1886, 278;
P. Hartwig, Rö
mMitt 2 (1887):167, no. 3;
Hartwig 1893, 448, pl. 44.1;
Klein 1898, 107, no. 4;
FR, 251-52, no. 1;
D. M. Robinson, AJA 21
(1917):87;
Beazley 1918,
87;
Hoppin 1919, vol. I, 421, no.
36;
Beazley 1925, 167, no.
14;
Philippart 1928, 50;
CVA, USA fasc. 6, Robinson fasc. 2,
14, pl. VII;
ARV2, 316, no.
7.
