pinax

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Object Type: pinax
Museum number: 1837,0609.31
Description: Pottery: black-figured pinax. Late black figure style; occasional purple accessories. Dionysos seated to left on an okladias, bearded, with long hair, ivy-wreath, long chiton with looped-up sleeves, the folds carefully indicated, and himation with purple border, holding out a cantharos in right hand.
Producer name: Attributed to: Psiax (painter)
Cultures/periods: Attic
Production date: 520BC-500BC (circa)
Production place: Made in: Attica (Greece)
Findspot: Excavated/Findspot: Vulci
Materials: pottery
Ware: Black Figure
Technique: painted; incised
Dimensions: Diameter: 21.59 centimetres
Curator's comments: BM Cat. Vases De Witte, Descr. no. 22.
Bibliographic references: Vase / Catalogue of Vases in the British Museum (B589); Old Catalogue / A Catalogue of the Greek and Etruscan Vases in the British Museum (698)
Location: On display (G14/dc1)
Condition: Much repaired.
Subjects: classical deity
Associated names: Representation of: Dionysos/Bacchus
Acquisition name: Purchased from: Lucien Bonaparte, Prince of Canino and Musignano (sale)
Acquisition date: 1837
Department: Greek and Roman
Registration number: 1837,0609.31

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