pelike
- Museum number
- 1867,0508.1145
- Description
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Pottery: red-figured pelike.
(a) Two Maenads conversing. The one on the left, holding in her left a chelys, leans forward, with her left foot raised on a rock, resting her right elbow upon her left knee, conversing, as the action of her right hand shows, with the Maenad confronting her, who holds upright with her right hand a thyrsos. Each wears a chiton and himation and earrings. The one on left wears a necklace, coloured brown, and has her hair looped up with a radiated fillet (left red); the other has her hair looped up with a purple fillet.
(b) Bearded satyr, closely draped in an himation, wearing a fillet with vertical piece over the forehead, stands to left, holding upright in his right a thyrsos.
Graceful style. Purple fillets, rays, and tuning-pegs of lyre. Brown inner markings. Eye in profile. Above and below a, a strip of maeander broken by two dotted cross squares; above and below b, a strip of key pattern. On the lower insertion of each handle, an inverted palmette.
- Production date
- 440BC (circa)
- Dimensions
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Height: 25.40 centimetres
- Curator's comments
- BM Cat. Vases
For the motif of the raised foot see Hartwig, Meistersch. p. 403, note 1.
- Location
- On display (G20a/dc37)
- Condition
- Surface blistered by fire.
- Acquisition date
- 1867
- Department
- Greek and Roman
- Registration number
- 1867,0508.1145
