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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1916.264
People
Mykonos Painter
Title
Calyx Krater (mixing bowl for wine and water): Dionysos, Maenads with Torches, Satyr
Classification
Vessels
Work Type
vessel
Date
c. 460 BCE
Places
Creation Place: Ancient & Byzantine World, Europe, Attica
Period
Classical period, Early
Culture
Greek
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/292684

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Terracotta
Technique
Red-figure
Dimensions
39 x 38.4 cm (15 3/8 x 15 1/8 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Edward P. Bliss, bequest; to the Fogg Art Museum, 1916.

State, Edition, Standard Reference Number

Standard Reference Number
Beazley Archive Database #205775

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Bequest of Edward P. Bliss
Accession Year
1916
Object Number
1916.264
Division
Asian and Mediterranean Art
Contact
am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
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Descriptions

Description
On one side, a woman (possibly a maenad) in chiton and mantle holding two lit torches in front of her faces a bearded Dionysos with ivy wreath and thyrsus (ivy-topped staff associated with Dionysos and his female followers, the maenads), who extends a kantharos (two-handled drinking cup)

On the other side, a woman with chiton and mantle holds a lit torch in the lowered right, countering the advances of satyr who has his left hand extended and holds a wineskin in his lowered right.

Publication History

  • George H. Chase and Mary Zelia Pease, Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum, U.S.A.: volume 8, Fogg Museum and Gallatin Collections, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, MA, 1942), 35, Pl. 357
  • J. D. Beazley, Attic Red-Figure Vase-Painters, The Clarendon Press (Oxford, England, 1963), 515, 8.
  • Jenifer Neils, "'Lost' and Found: Adam Buck's Wedding of Dionysus", Athenian Potters and Painters, The Conference Proceedings (Oxford, 1997), pg. 237, Fig. 13 (a)

Verification Level

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