krotala

MUNICH, Museum Antiker Kleinkunst ii

Tafel 93

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MUNICH, Museum Antiker Kleinkunst iii

Tafel 153

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Storage Jar with Dionysos

Unknown
Greek, Athens, about 510 B.C.
Terracotta
15 7/8 to 16 x 10 5/16 in.
86.AE.79

Horses were an integral part of the Greek world. They were used for transportation, entertainment, and most importantly warfare. They also served as symbols of wealth and status, because of their high cost of maintenance. This Athenian black-figure neck-amphora depicts two men leading their mounts. Each man wears a petasos, or broad-brimmed traveler's hat, and carries two spears. As this vase shows, Greek riders controlled their horses with reins and a bridle, but they had no saddle or stirrups. These men lead their horses at their shoulder on short reins. This follows the practice set out by the later historian and general Xenophon, who would advise in his text The Art of Horsemanship against allowing the horse to get either too far ahead or behind on a long lead. This way the horses could not get into mischief and the rider could mount quickly if necessary. The back of the amphora depicts the festive atmosphere surrounding Dionysos, the god of wine. Dionysos stands calmly holding his kantharos, or drinking cup, while his companions dance and make music. A satyr, a creature part animal and part human, plays the aulos, or double flutes, and a maenad plays krotala, castanet-like instruments.

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Wine Cup with a Boy Dedicating the Mouth Strap of a Wind Instrument




Attributed to the Brygos Painter
Greek, Athens, about 480 B.C.
Terracotta
3 5/8 x 11 7/8 x 9 1/16 in.
86.AE.288



A youth stands before an altar on the interior of this red-figure kylix or cup. The lyre in one hand and the phorbeia, a face-strap used by flute players, that he holds over the altar identify him as a musician. The act of offering gifts to the gods was an essential element of Greek religion. Although pious worshippers could give animal sacrifices, libations or liquid offerings, or elaborate, expensive gifts, the gods also appreciated small items of great personal importance. Greeks made such offerings when praying for something to occur or in thanks for a good outcome. This scene may represent a youth asking for, or giving thanks for, a victory in one of the frequent musical contests in which well-bred Athenian young men competed.

Although the depiction of a religious ritual on a cup used at a drinking party may seem odd today, the Greeks saw no conflict in this. For the Greeks, the drinking and merriment of the symposion was itself an offering to Dionysos, the god of wine.

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MALIBU, J. Paul Getty Museum viii

Plate 426

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MALIBU, J. Paul Getty Museum viii

Plate 414

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MADRID, Musée Archéologique National i

Pl. 26

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MADRID, Museo Arqueologico Nacional ii

Pl.7

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LOS ANGELES, County Museum of Art i

Plate 15

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Object types
kylix (scope note | all objects)

Materials
pottery (scope note | all objects)
Ware
Red figure (scope note | all objects)
Techniques
painted (scope note | all objects)
incised (scope note | all objects)
Production person
Attributed to Epiktetos (painter) (biographical details | all objects)
Made by Python (potter) (biographical details | all objects)
Production place
Made in Athens (all objects)
Place (findspot)
Excavated/Findspot Vulci (all objects)
Date
510BC (circa)
Period/Culture
Attic (scope note | all objects)
Description
Pottery: red-figured kylix. Outline of hair incised.
Interior: Within a thin red circle, dancing girl and fluteplayer. A youth (wreathed, mantle on left shoulder, phorbeia over mouth) steps in time to right, playing flutes; before him dances a girl with castanets, in short close-fitting bordered chiton of archaic form, a nebris fastened to left shoulder, earrings, and a saccos; she looks round to left; her chiton is not indicated above the waist.
Exterior: (a) Heracles slaying Busiris. Beside an altar (with top in form of Ionic capital) Busiris falls backward to right, his left leg bent under him, both arms thrown upward, blood streaming from two wounds in jaw and crown: Heracles grasps him by the throat, and swings his club back to deal him a final stroke: he is bearded, and wears lionskin tied, short chiton, and quiver hanging at waist from his right shoulder. On either side two Egyptian priests run away at full speed, looking back; the foremost on left holds a sacrificial knife, and has just let fall the sacrificial basket: his companion wears a phorbeia, and has a flute case (sybene) hanging from his left shoulder. The foremost on right has just dropped a chelys, with plectrum attached: his companion carries a trefoil oinochoe. All the Egyptians have shaven heads, with a patch of hair, indicated by brown dots, left over the ear; in the case of the two on left, the brown dots extend all over the head; the one with oinochoe has the cheek dotted. They have long crania, thick lips, snub nose and wrinkled forehead and cheeks: and wear a short under-tied chiton, of which the finer folds are only indicated above the girdle. The four priests wear wreaths.
(b) Symposion, with triclinium. On the left couch is a man wreathed, with himation around legs, his right arm supporting his head thrown back, his left hanging at side, singing to the music of a flute-playing girl (long chiton, himation, saccos, earrings) who stands beside foot of couch. Beside his left hand is his kylix, which he has laid on the ground. On the central couch is a man partly bald, with wrinkled forehead (himation round legs, folded cloth tied round head), holding out his kylix to be filled by a wreathed boy who holds an oinochoe in right hand. The third couch, on right, is at right angles to the others, so that the figure on it has his back turned; he rests his left elbow on a striped bolster, and raises a kylix to his lips; the upper part of his head and parts of his left arm and back are wanting, but he seems to be an ephebos wreathed.

Inscriptions
Inscription Type: inscription
Inscription Script: Greek
Inscription Language: Greek
Inscription Content: Exterior (a): ΠΥΘΟΝΕΠΟΙΕΣΕΝ, Πύθων έποίησεν.
Exterior (b): ΕΠΙΚΤΕΤΟΣ ΕΓΡΑΦΣΕ., 'Επίκτητος έγραφσε[ν.
Inscription Translation: Python made it.
Epiktetos painted (?) it


Dimensions
Height: 5 inches
Diameter: 13 inches
Height: 122 millimetres
Width: 410 millimetres (including handles)
Diameter: 325 millimetres
Weight: 995 grammes

Department: Greek & Roman Antiquities

Registration number: 1843,1103.9

Greek and Roman Antiquities catalogue number: Old Catalogue 823Vase E38

Bibliographic reference
Old Catalogue 823
Vase E38

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LONDON, British Museum vi

Pl. 97

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LIMOGES and VANNES, Musée Adrien Dubouché et Musée de la Société Polymathique

Pl.5

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LEIDEN, Rijksmuseum van Oudheden i

Plate 32

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LEIDEN, Rijksmuseum van Oudheden ii

Plate 103

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LEIDEN, Rijksmuseum van Oudheden iii

Plate 117

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