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A Lost Cup by Douris with an Unusual Scene

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 December 2013

Martin Robertson
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Fig. 1 is from a tracing of the interior picture of a r.f. cup, whose whereabouts are not now known. The tracing is preserved in the library of the Department of Greek and Roman Antiquities, British Museum, and according to a note on it was sent to the Department by a Mr. Goden Smith on 16th February, 1882, the cup being then in the possession of Mr. (afterwards Sir) J. C. Robinson, who had obtained it in Italy.

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The Journal of Hellenic Studies , Volume 66 , November 1946 , pp. 123 - 125
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Copyright © The Society for the Promotion of Hellenic Studies 1946

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References

1 As a parallel for modesty in woman Professor Beazley cites, besides the Ferrari cup discussed below, Breccia, , Le Musée Egyptien 1909Google Scholar, Fasc. 1, pl. 12, 3, and Expedition von Sieglin, Band II, 3Google Scholar Teil, 61, Fig. 74 (a); also Auge's attitude to Herakles (AJA, XLV 193). Sleep in the shadow of lust occurs, of course, in the often repeated theme of the satyr attacking a sleeping maenad; and on a number of vases Ariadne exemplifies sleep in the shadow of desertion.

2 Beazley, , ARV 211Google Scholar, no. 3, and in Burlington Magazine XLI 121–2 and plate; Sotheby's catalogue, 8th June, 1925. Pl. 1.

3 2646 (J371); ARV no. 108; FR pl. 105; Langlotz, Griech. Vas. pl. 29, 43.

4 Fragments of a cup in Leipsic (T550; ARV 116; Hartwig, , Meist. 661–2Google Scholar) show a similar scene on the interior.

5 483 (U 77); ARV no. 174; Langlotz, pl. 152. The drawing, as Beazley points out, is weak and may be schoolwork.

6 ARV no. 117; AJA XXV pls. 1–3; CVA II pls. 13–14.

7 The sakkos is often the mistress's wear, sometimes in contrast to the veiled head of the wife. Cf. Beazley, , Vases in Poland, 38Google Scholar, n. 2.

8 Faina 60; ARV no. 188; described by Philippart, , Ceramique Grecque en Italie, 137Google Scholar, no. 5. A fragment in the Villa Giulia (ARV 125) shows on the interior a bit of table and of himation.

9 ARV no. 86; Festschrift für Otto Benndorf, 86; Pollak, Joseph von Kopf als Sammler, pl. 5, 98.

10 ARV nos. 104, 113, probably 132 and 132 bis, 138 and 139, and possibly other fragments.

11 482 (U 430); ARV no. 186; Langlotz, pl. 152.

12 ARV no. 115; Panofka, Eigennamen, pl. 1, 10; Klein, Lieblingsnamen, 94Google Scholar. I now learn that this vase has been rediscovered by Professor A. D. Trendall in the Museum at Canterbury, New Zealand.

13 Louvre, G 123; ARV no. 83; Hartwig, Meist. pl. 68; Pottier, Cat. pl. 111; Beazley and Ashmole, Greek Sculpture and Painting, Fig. 57. Kunze, Zeus and Ganymede (100th Winckelmannsprogram), 39, points out that the figure, though probably, is not certainly female, and might be Ganymede. Cf. Beazley, , Etruscan Vase Painting, 297Google Scholar.