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Malibu 92.AE.6

A: Okeanos (labelled to the right of his head) (missing lower face and upper left arm), standing profile to the right, with his left foot advanced, wearing a himation draped over his left arm (missing) and around his lower body, over a medium-sleeved chiton with a patterned hem, and a taenia (his hair in a krobylos), holds a scepter with palmette finial upright in his slightly raised left hand, and holds his right hand at waist level; Ge Panteleia (labelled to the right of her head) seated 3/4-view to the right on a decorated stool, with her feet on a footstool, wearing a himation draped over her left arm and around her lower body, over a medium-, button-sleeved chiton with an overfold, and a rayed stephane, holds a scepter with a palmette finial upright in her slightly raised left hand, and a phiale at waist level, in her right hand; bearded Dionysos (labelled retrograde diagonally from his right elbow), standing profile to the left, with his left foot slightly advanced, wearing a himation draped over his left arm and around his lower body, over a medium-, button-sleeved, patterned chiton with an overfold (?), and an ivy wreath, holds an ivy branch in his slightly lowered left hand, and branch with fugitive white leaves/flowers in his extended right hand; a small panther (leopard?) behind him, standing profile to the left.

B: Bearded King Balos (labelled above his scepter), seated profile to the right on a stool, wearing a himation draped over his left shoulder, his hair in a short pony tail, holds both bent arms at waist level, spreads the fingers of his right hand (to receive the phiale from Themis?), and a scepter diagonally in his left hand; Themis (labelled to right), standing near frontal, with her head profile to the left, wearing a medium-, button-sleeved chiton, a himation draped around her lower body and over her left shoulder, and a red taenia, holds a phiale to Balos, in her outstretched right hand, and a trefoil-lipped oinochoe to Epaphos in her slightly upraised left hand (her left arm is bent); bearded Epaphos (labelled retrograde to the left of his head; missing body between hips and neck, and both arms, except right hand), standing profile to left, his right foot advanced, wearing a himation over a chiton, and a white wreath (fugitive), also holds a scepter upright in his slightly upraised right hand.

Graffiti: Graffito on the underside of the foot, PS* sTATERI, records the price as one stater; another graffito: B.

Inscriptions: Signed in the field behind Dionysos' head: SURISKOS* eGRAPHSEN

Collection History: Formerly in a private collection in New York

Sources Used: LIMC, 7.32 s.v. Okeanos no. 6 (H.A. Cahn); Shapiro 1993, 219-20, 263 no. 145, fig. 181; "Acquisitions/1992. Antiquities," GettyMusJ 21 (1993) 107 no. 10 (ill.).

(Amy C. Smith)