Dionysos, from the waist up
Dionysos
Standing maiden, from the waist up
Youth holding staff and seated in left profile
Youth holding staff and seated in left profile, from the waist up
Handle at left rear
Collection: | Johns Hopkins University Museum, Baltimore |
Summary: | Seated youth and Dionysos flanked by two women |
Ware: | South Italian Red Figure |
Context: | From near Capua |
Date: | ca. 350 BC - 325 BC |
Dimensions: | H. 0.317 m., D. rim 0.092 m., D. foot 0.131 m. |
Primary Citation: | |
Shape: | Squat lekythos |
Region: | Apulia |
Period: | Late Classical/Early Hellenistic |
Decoration Description:
A youth seated in left profile turns his head to gaze behind him. He is nude except for a mantle draped across his waist and legs. He holds a staff in his outstretched right hand. Behind him is draped standing maiden, turning to her left. In front of her is Dionysos, seated three-quarters to his right with a nude torso, a mantle draped over his legs. In his right hand he holds a thyrsos. He turns his head to glance back at a standing female in left profile who holds a thyrsos in her right hand. There is extensive use of added white.
Tongues surround the lower half of the neck; a band of wave pattern is on the shoulder above the reserved band. The figures stand on a white band enclosed by black bounding lines. Beneath is a band of wave pattern beneath a dotted white line, then white and black bands. At the back is a seventeen-petal palmette amid scrolls.
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Collection History:
Gift of the Brooklyn Museum.
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