- Museum number
- 1856,1226.5
- Description
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Pottery: red-figured calyx-krater (wine-bowl).
Designs red on black ground, with white and yellow accessories. Above the designs, laurel-wreath; below, (a) palmettes, (b) maeander and crosses.
(a) Dionysiac scene: In the centre is a couch covered with a panther's skin, on which is seated the youthful Dionysos to left, with long curls, large taenia tied round his head and myrtle-wreath, bordered himation over lower limbs, thyrsos with taenia fastened round it in left hand, which rests on cushions; in right he holds out a small white kylix by one finger inserted in the handle, as if about to throw the cottabos. By the side of the couch is a square table, on which are a situla and two fruit, and in front of the table a basket with fruit, and a white cottabos-stand. At the end of the couch stands a Maenad to right, with long curls, radiated ampyx, earrings, bracelets, long chiton and apoptygma, and himation over lower limbs and left arm, holding the top part of the stand with both hands. Behind her is a Satyr to right, with ivy-wreath, holding out an askos of skin in both hands, from which he pours water into a crater (shape as the vase itself) with a white taenia round the handles. The crater has black figures on a red ground, with a chevron moulding round the top; on the body, an athlete moving to left looking back, holding up a diskos in left hand; on the right is another athlete jumping, with right leg raised and arms extended. Below the Satyr is a ground-line indicated by white dots. Behind Dionysos is a Maenad to left, with hair in a loose knot, earrings, necklace, bracelets, long girt chiton with a stripe down the side, and apoptygma; her right hand is extended, and in left she holds up a tympanon. On the ground is a plant, and above a phiale, window, and taenia; above Dionysos, a female head to left, perhaps an oscillum, with long curls and embroidered white fillet, originally painted white.
(b) In the centre is a female figure to right, with hair in a bunch at the back, long girt chiton and himation round body and over left arm; she holds up in right hand a wreath, and in left a large pyxis with maeander pattern, to an ephebos facing her, staff in hand, leaning against a stele on which is his himation. On the left is an ephebos to right, with himation over left shoulder, and staff in right hand; above him a window, and further to right an embroidered taenia suspended.
- Production date
- 370BC-360BC (circa)
- Dimensions
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Diameter: 39.37 centimetres
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Height: 41.91 centimetres
- Curator's comments
- BM Cat. Vases
Archaeologia, II. p. 391.
For the cottabos-stand, cf. BM Vase F273.
For the oscillum, cf. BM Vase F179.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1856
- Department
- Greek and Roman
- Registration number
- 1856,1226.5
