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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1960.358
People
The Amykos Painter, Greek (active 420 - 400 BCE)
Title
Red-Figure Bell Krater: Seated Maenad Playing a Double Flute
Classification
Vessels
Work Type
vessel
Date
420-400 BCE
Places
Creation Place: Ancient & Byzantine World, Europe, Lucania
Period
Classical period
Culture
Italian
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/291241

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Terracotta
Dimensions
31.6 x 32.5 cm (12 7/16 x 12 13/16 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Ex Warren collection.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Bequest of David M. Robinson
Accession Year
1960
Object Number
1960.358
Division
Asian and Mediterranean Art
Contact
am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
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Descriptions

Description
Side A: Seated maenad playing double flute with satyrs dancing; Side B: Three cloaked young men. Laurel wreath on rim, meander base.

Publication History

  • Fogg Art Museum, The David Moore Robinson Bequest of Classical Art and Antiquities, A Special Exhibition, exh. cat., Harvard University (Cambridge, MA, 1961), p. 21, no. 142
  • A. D. Trendall, The Red-Figured Vases of Lucania, Campania, and Sicily, Oxford University Press (UK) (Oxford, 1967), p. 34, no. 120
  • Caroline Houser, Dionysos and His Circle: Ancient Through Modern, exh. cat., Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, 1979), no. 14.

Exhibition History

  • The David Moore Robinson Bequest of Classical Art and Antiquities: A Special Exhibition, Fogg Art Museum, 05/01/1961 - 09/20/1961
  • Dionysos and His Circle: Ancient through Modern, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 12/10/1979 - 02/10/1980
  • The Villa of the Mysteries in Pompeii: Ancient Ritual, Modern Muse, Kelsey Museum of Archaeology and Museum of Art, Ann Arbor, 09/30/2000 - 11/17/2000

Verification Level

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