Pelike
Object Number:
MS3443
Current Location:
Collections storage
Culture:
Attic
Provenience:
Italy
Etruria
Orvieto
Manufacture Location:
Attica
Maker:
Troilos Painter
Date Made:
5th century BC
Early Date:
-499
Late Date:
-400
Section:
Mediterranean
Materials:
Ceramic
Technique:
Red Figure
Iconography:
Dionysos
Satyr
Kantharos
Oinochoe
Description:
Pelike. Handles, much of wall restored in plaster; base perhaps alien. A, at right Dionysos, bearded, fully clothed, carrying a kantharos, proceeds to right looking back at a satyr. Satyr wears ivy werath, holds oinochoe in right hand and holds a wineskin by left hand over left shoulder. B, Dionysos in pose similar to A, looking back at another satyr (lower part only) proceeding to left. Part of wineskin preserved behind tail.
Height:
37cm
Outside Diamater:
16cm
Bibliography:
[Book] 1991. Gens antiquissima Italiae: Antichità dall'Umbria a New York. : Page/Fig./Plate: 434
[Book] Beazley, John D. 1963. Attic Red-figure Vase-painters.
[Book] Beazley, J. D. 1942. Attic Red-figure Vase-Painters.
[Catalogue] Luce, Stephen B. 1921. Catalogue of the Mediterranean Section. : Page/Fig./Plate: p. 79, No. 121
[Book] Beazley, John D. 1918. Attic Red-Figured Vases in American Museums.
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