rhyton
- Museum number
- 1846,0629.47
- Description
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Pottery: red-figured rhyton in the form of a ram's head.
Design red on black ground, with white accessories. The ram's head is black, the horns left in the colour of the clay and marked with red transverse lines; the cornea of the eye yellow with black spots, the pupil black. Round the lip, egg-moulding; on either side of the design, palmettes.
The youthful Dionysos seated on a cushion to left, with white fillet, the ends hanging down, wreath, and himation over thighs, in left arm a thyrsos, right hand raised; at his further side is a cottabos-stand, to which is attached a white taenia. Before him is a Satyr dancing, with left hand raised; he is bald in front, and has a white fillet and string of beads over left shoulder, right hand placed on hip.
- Production date
- 370BC-350BC (circa)
- Dimensions
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Height: 19.05 centimetres
- Curator's comments
- BM Cat. Vases
Archaeologia, li. p. 392.
- Location
- On display (G73/dc73)
- Acquisition date
- 1846
- Department
- Greek and Roman
- Registration number
- 1846,0629.47
