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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1925.30.128
People
Attributed to the Colmar Painter
Title
Kylix (drinking cup): Running Maenad
Classification
Vessels
Work Type
vessel
Date
500-470 BCE
Places
Creation Place: Ancient & Byzantine World, Europe, Attica
Period
Classical period, Early
Culture
Greek
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/292305

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Terracotta; reddish clay with fine black glaze
Technique
Red-figure
Dimensions
H. 8 x diam. 10 cm (3 1/8 x 3 15/16 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Joseph Hoppin purchased in Rome, 1895.

State, Edition, Standard Reference Number

Standard Reference Number
Beazley Archive Database #203750

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Bequest of Joseph C. Hoppin
Accession Year
1925
Object Number
1925.30.128
Division
Asian and Mediterranean Art
Contact
am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
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Descriptions

Description
Interior: Inside a meander border, a Maenad running to right but facing left. She is clad in an Ionic chiton with a himation draped over her left shoulder and wears a fillet in applied purple in her hair. In h er right hand she holds the krotala and in her left a thyrsos. At her right is a rock. Fine black glaze covering the entire vase except for the interior medallion and the edge of the foot. Broken, but nothing missing. One handle restored in paster.

Publication History

  • Caroline Houser, Dionysos and His Circle: Ancient Through Modern, exh. cat., Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, 1979), no. 7.

Exhibition History

  • Dionysos and His Circle: Ancient through Modern, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 12/10/1979 - 02/10/1980

Verification Level

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