Kylix

Object Number:

MS3444

Current Location:

Etruscan Italy Gallery

Culture:

Etruscan
Faliscan

Provenience:

Mediterranean

Section:

Mediterranean

Materials:

Ceramic

Technique:

Red Figure

Iconography:

Dionysos
Maenad
Woman
Youth

Description:

Etruscan Red figured kylix; Dionysos and a naked maenad. Both figures move to the right, embracing, their faces close. Dionysos at left, maenad at right. A long piece of drapery begins under Dionysos' right arm, extends across his chest to his left shoulder, falls down behind his back, behind his right thigh to knee level, then across behind the maenad and then up and over Dionysos' left wrist. At right a thyrsus and two plants. Key pattern and cross as the border of the tondo. A&B: woman, naked youth & youth. The outer two face in. The center figure faces left. Recmposed from many fragments; parts of rim and wall missing and restored in plaster.

Height:

9.5cm

Width:

36.5cm

Outside Diamater:

28.3cm

Current & Past Exhibitions:

Classical Gallery: Etruscan (1975 - 2000)

Etruscan World (15 Mar 2003)

Bibliography:

[Catalogue] Turfa, Jean M. 2005. Catalogue of the Etruscan Gallery of the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology. : Page/Fig./Plate: 235-236, C6

[Catalogue] White, Donald and Ann Blair Brownlee, Irene Bald Romano, Jean MacIntosh Turfa. 2002. Guide to the Etruscan and Roman Worlds at the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology. : Page/Fig./Plate: 31

[Book] Beazley, J. D. 1947. Etruscan Vase-Painting. Vol. I. 351. : Page/Fig./Plate: p. 300

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