askos
- Museum number
- 1885,1213.25
- Description
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Pottery: red-figured askos.
(a) Maenad with long chiton and apoptygma, hair looped up, running to left, looking back. With thyrsos couched like a spear in her right hand, and left arm extended and covered with a nebris as a shield, she prepares to repel
(b) A bearded satyr who steps cautiously after her, his body bent and right foot advanced.
On the foot an incised character A.
Drawing of good period. Brown markings of nebris. Eye in profile.
- Production date
- 470BC-400BC
- Dimensions
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Height: 6.35 centimetres
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Length: 8.89 centimetres
- Location
- On display (G20a/dc13)
- Condition
- Part of lip missing.
- Acquisition date
- 1885
- Department
- Greek and Roman
- Registration number
- 1885,1213.25
