Amphora (storage vessel)
Artist: The Priam Painter (Greek)
Date: about 510-500 BCE
Dimensions:
H: 17 1/8 in. (43.5 cm); Diam (mouth): 7 7/8 in. (20 cm); Diam (body): 10 3/4 in. (27.3 cm); Diam (foot - as restored): 5 17/32 in. (14 cm)
Medium: Black figure; Wheel-thrown, slip-decorated earthenware with incised details.
Place of Origin: Greece, from Attica
Classification: Ceramics
Credit Line: Purchased with funds from the Libbey Endowment, Gift of Edward Drummond Libbey
Object number: 1929.48
Label Text:The front side of this vessel shows three of the main Greek gods: Athena, standing between Apollo (who plays a stringed instrument called a kithara) and Hermes. Behind Athena is a grazing fawn. On the reverse side the god of wine and theater, Dionysos (holding a wine cup and surrounded by grape vines), stands between a dancing maenad (one of his female followers) and a satyr (part-goat woodland spirit). Although in later periods Dionysos was usually depicted as a handsome beardless young man, in this period he is often shown as a mature man wearing the proper clothing of a Greek aristocrat.
DescriptionFront: Athena, Apollo, Hermes, and a fawn.
Back: Dionysos with a maenad and a satyr.
Back: Dionysos with a maenad and a satyr.
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