- Museum number
- 1836,0224.62
- Description
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Pottery: black-figured skyphos. Designs black on red ground, with incised lines and purple accessories. Early Athenian style. Round the top a wreath. (a) Dionysos in his ship-car, seated to right, with long hair, ivy-wreath, and pointed beard, long chiton and himation, holding in left hand a vine which spreads over the field. At either end sits a Satyr with phorbeia (chin strap), playing the double flute, of whom hardly anything is now visible. The car is of the shape of a galley, with four wheels, the prow terminating in a boar's head, the stern in a cheniskos, or goose's head.
(b) Sacrifice of a bull (probably the prize of a dithyrambic victory): Six bearded male figures, the first five wearing himatia; the two on the left are conversing; the third moves to right, carrying an ivy-branch; the fourth, also to right, plays the double flute, with a phorbeia; the fifth stands to right behind the bull, guiding it by a cord attached to one of its horns; the sixth stands at its head to right, looking to left, with branches in left hand. Under one handle is a swan to right, nearly obliterated; the space under the other is completely painted over.
- Production date
- 500BC (circa)
- Dimensions
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Diameter: 225 millimetres
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Height: 158 millimetres
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Weight: 714 grammes
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Width: 295 millimetres
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Depth: 221 millimetres
- Curator's comments
- BM Cat. Vases
Durand Coll. 197 Judica, Ant. di Acre, pl. 25, 26, p. 137; Inghirami, Vasi Fitt. i. pl. 33; Panofka, Vasi di Premio, i. pls. 4 b; Harrison and Verrall, p. 253 ; Rhein. Mus. xliii. (1888), p. 357. Cf. a vase-in Mus. Ital. ii. p. 30, pl. 1, 4.
For the goose's head, cf. the kylix by Exekias, Gerhard, A. V. 49. For the sacrificial bull, cf. Vase BM B80.
- Location
- On display (G13a/dc13)
- Condition
- Fragments pieced together and restored; has been much painted over.
- Acquisition date
- 1836
- Department
- Greek and Roman
- Registration number
- 1836,0224.62
- Additional IDs
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Miscellaneous number: 32
