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K12.4 DIONYSUS, SATYR & MAENAD

Dionysus, Satyr & Maenad | Attic red figure vase painting
DETAILS
Museum Collection Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge
Catalogue No. Harvard 1960.343
Beazley Archive No. 213539
Ware Attic Red Figure
Shape Krater, Bell
Painter Attributed to the Curti Painter
Date ca. 440 - 430 B.C.
Period Classical

DESCRIPTION

Side A: The god Dionysus is attended by a flute-playing Satyr and tambourine-beating Maenad. The bearded god is crowned with a wreath of ivy and holds a drinking cup (krater) in one hand and a staff of fruiting ivy in the other. The Satyr is seatd on a rock and plays a double-flute. The Maenad wears a wreath of serpents and beats a tympanum drum.

Side B: The death of Orpheus (not shown).

ARTICLES

Dionysus, Satyrs, Tityri