RVAp I, 1/18, p. 8

RVAp or LCS reference

RVAp I, 1/18, p. 8

Production area

Apulie

Painter in RVAp/LCS

Painter of the Berlin Dancing Girl

Type

Hydrie

City or collection indicated in RVAp/LCS

Taranto

Inv. in RVAp/LCS

134905

Provenance (indicated in RVAp/LCS)

Ugento

Text of the notice in RVAp/LCS

PLATE 3,4.
Lo Porto, AttiMgrecia, n.s. 11-12, 1970-1, p. 131, no. 18, pis. 54-56, and Atti X° CStMG,
1970, pl. 103b; ESI, p.47, no. B17.
Bearded man with staff (his body going beneath the I. handle), youth with spear, wearing short tunic with dot-cluster pattern, veiled woman whose I. ann is grasped by a nude youth wearing a chlamys and holding a spear, silen seated upon a rock which goes down beneath the r. handle.
La Porto interpreted the subject as a bridal scene by analogy with the Marriage of Sisyphus on Munich 3268 (no. 51), but it may well represent Antigone brought before Kreon by two guards (cf. B.M. F 175 = LCS, p. 103, no. 539), in which case the silen to r. is probably meant to indicate an out-door setting.
In style the vase stands very close to the Painter of the Berlin Dancing Girl and may well be by his own hand. Compare 0) the head of the bearded man with those on the reverse of Lecce 571 and the Tereus fragment (nos. 13 and 16), (ii) the head of the silen with those of the centaurs on the Providence krater (no. 9), (iii) the nude youth with Achilles on Lecce 571 (no. 13).
The bearded man is also close to those on Bonn 80 and the Cahn fragment 213 (nos. 49-50 below).
Dot-cluster patterns are Sisyphean (cL Ruvo 1096, Matera 9978; nos. 52 and 63), and the composition as a whole resembles that of the hydria Bari 4394 (no. 71), though there the figures do not go beneath the handles. The crossed squares accompanying the meanders are more in the manner of the Sisyphus or Hearst Painters, and are not like those of the Painter of the Berlin Dancing Girl. The silen has a faintly Amykan or PKP look (cL LCS, nos. 109, 110, 267), and this vase provides further evidence for the connexion between the two principal Early South Italian workshops in the later fifth century B.C.