Stamnos

L-64-228

From: Italy | Lucania

Curatorial Section: Mediterranean

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Object Number L-64-228
Current Location Collections Storage
Culture Etruscan | Faliscan
Provenience Italy | Lucania
Manufacture Location Etruria
Date Made 399-300 BCE
Section Mediterranean
Materials Ceramic
Technique Red Figure
Iconography Woman | Man | Satyr | Maenad | Dionysos | Drinking Horn | Phiale
Description

A) Dionysos and seated maenad (or Ariadne?) Dionysos, at right, advances toward seated female at left. He is nude save for boots, calf-length, and for a garment draped over his left forearm, behind his back and down between his legs. A fillet binds his hair. A thyrsus leans diagonally against his right shoulder. A goose on the ground in front of him. The seated woman has no visible support. She is nude to the waist. Her lower body and legs are covered with a richly embroidered garment. Her body is directed to the left but her head looks back toward Dionysos. She holds a tympanum (?) in her right hand. Over her left arm is a thyrsus with a grape cluster. B) Satyr and maenad. Satyr at left advances towrd standing maenad at right. Satyr holds drinking horn is left hand. Maenad holds out phiale toward him. Heavily overpainted.

Height 40.1 cm
Width 33.2 cm
Outside Diameter 27.4 cm
Other Number 1902-880 - Philadelphia Museum of Art Number

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