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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