volute krater
- Museum number
- 1931,0511.1
- Description
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Pottery: red-figured volute-krater (bowl for mixing wine and water) with Dionysos accompanied by a youth and a woman. The other side shows Boreas, god of the North wind, seizing Oreithyia at an altar. On the right, the aged priestess flees, dropping the temple key. Below is a papposilenos, suggesting that the scene was inspired by a satyr play.
- Production date
- 350BC-340BC (circa)
- Dimensions
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Height: 68 centimetres
- Location
- On display (G73/dc70)
- Exhibition history
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Exhibited:
2003 5 Aug-5 Oct, Tokyo National Museum, 'Alexander the Great: East-West Cultural Contacts from Greece to Japan'
2003 18 Oct-21 Dec, Kobe, Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Art, 'Alexander the Great: East-West Cultural Contacts from Greece to Japan'
- Acquisition date
- 1931
- Acquisition notes
- Purchased by the donor's grandfather at the Earl of Cadogan's sale in 1865.
- Department
- Greek and Roman
- Registration number
- 1931,0511.1
