2007.104.17: Vase Fragment: Dionysos and Satyr

Identification and Creation

Object Number

2007.104.17

Title

Vase Fragment: Dionysos and Satyr

Classification

Fragments

Work Type

sherd

Date

c. 500 BCE

Places

Creation Place: Ancient & Byzantine World, Europe, Athens (Attica)

Period

Archaic period

Culture

Greek

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/175560

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Terracotta

Technique

Black-figure

Dimensions

6 x 6.55 cm (2 3/8 x 2 9/16 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

Walton Brooks McDaniel, New Jersey (1920-1943), gift; to the Department of the Classics, Harvard University (1943-2007), transfer; to the Harvard Art Museums, 2007.

Note: Walton Brooks McDaniel gave a portion of his collection to the Department of the Classics in 1943 and the rest in 1946. The Collection is named for his late wife, Alice Corinne McDaniel. As noted in non-comprehensive list of McDaniel objects dated October 25, 1946, McDaniel purchased this sherd on October 30, 1920 in Civita Castellana.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Transfer from the Alice Corinne McDaniel Collection, Department of the Classics, Harvard University

Accession Year

2007

Object Number

2007.104.17

Division

Asian and Mediterranean Art

Contact

am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu

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Descriptions

Description

Fragment from a closed vessel, perhaps the upper right-hand corner of the figure panel of an oinochoe. A zig-zag pattern runs along the upper edge of the fragment, with a double line separating it from the figural scene. Dionysos holds a drinking horn and looks left toward a facing satyr. A stylized vine is in the background.

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