Cup
Kylix
| Object Number: | MS3444 |
|---|---|
| Current Location: |
Etruscan Italy Gallery Currently On Display |
| Culture: | Etruscan Faliscan |
| Provenience: | Civita Castellana |
| Section: | Mediterranean |
| Materials: | Ceramic |
| Technique: | Red Figure |
| Iconography: | Dionysos Bacchus Ariadne Maenad Youth Woman |
| Height: | 9.5 cm |
| Width: | 36.5 cm |
| Outside Diameter: | 28.3 cm |
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. Recomposed from many fragments; parts of rim and wall missing and restored in plaster.
Current & Past Exhibitions:
| Classical World - Etruscan World (15 Mar 2003) | View Objects in Exhibition |
| Classical Gallery: Etruscan (1975 - 2000) | View Objects in Exhibition |
Bibliography:
| [Catalogue, Exhibition] Turfa, Jean M. 2005. Catalogue of the Etruscan Gallery of the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology.. Philadelphia. University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology. Actual Citation : Page/Fig./Plate: pp. 235-236, no. 255; p. C6, pl. 26 | View Objects related to this Actual Citation |
| [Catalogue, Exhibition] Turfa, Jean M., and Romano, Irene B., and Brownlee, Ann B., and White, Donald J. 2002. Guide to the Etruscan and Roman Worlds at the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology.. Philadelphia. University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology. Actual Citation : Page/Fig./Plate: p. 31, no. 46 | View Objects related to this Actual Citation |
| [Book] Beazley, John D. 1947. Etruscan Vase-Painting.. Oxford. Clarendon Press. Actual Citation : Page/Fig./Plate: p. 300 | View Objects related to this Actual Citation |
| [Article] Turfa, Jean M. 2012. "Buried in the Height of Fashion". Expedition: The Magazine of the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology. Philadelphia. The University Museum. Vol. 54. no. 2. pg. 7-9 : Page/Fig./Plate: p. 8 | View Objects related to this |
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