Flute-playing Satyr & Dionysus | Greek vase, Athenian red figure amphora

T60.14 DIONYSOS & SATYROS

Museum Collection: Musée du Louvre, Paris, France
Catalogue Number: Louvre G201
Beazley Archive Number: 201871
Ware: Attic Red Figure
Shape: Amphora
Painter: Attributed to the Berlin Painter
Date: ca 500 - 480 BC
Period: Late Archaic

SUMMARY

Dionysos reclines beside a flute playing Satyros. The god holds a drinking cup in his hands and is crowned with a wreath of ivy. The Satyros has the usual features of his kind: horse's tail and ears, pug nose, balding head.

NOTEThis image is a montage of two photos of the vase.

ARTICLESDionysos, Satyroi

 
 
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