pelike
- Museum number
- 1857,1220.224
- Description
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Pottery: red-figured pelike.
(a) Dionysos and thiasos. Dionysos, youthful and wreathed, is seated to right on a chair on which his mantle is laid, with thyrsos resting against his right shoulder, and feet resting on a footstool. Before him Eros flies in a dancing attitude to right, playing on castanets, towards a Maenad in an himation which leaves her breast bare, who dances to right, looking back, striking a tympanon; her hair is knotted behind, and she wears earrings. On the right a bearded satyr is seated to left on a rock playing flutes; and on left, behind Dionysos, a second Maenad, closely draped and wearing a saccos, dances to left, looking back. In the field above the centre of the design, a bucranion.
(b) Three draped ephebi conversing; two to right, one to left, facing them.
Hair in brown wavy lines.
- Production date
- 360BC-350BC
- Dimensions
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Height: 30.48 centimetres
- Curator's comments
- BM Cat. Vases
Style like that of the vases of this shape found in Kertch and the Cyrenaica.
- Location
- On display (G20a/dc40)
- Condition
- Surface of figures badly damaged.
- Acquisition date
- 1857
- Department
- Greek and Roman
- Registration number
- 1857,1220.224
