Terracotta kylix (drinking cup) ca. 480 Signed by Hieron Interior, flute-playing satyr and maenadExterior, obverse and reverse, symposiumThe exterior provides a particularly full illustration of the symposium (drinking party) and, especially, of its paraphernalia: a wreathed column-krater for mixing wine and water, a large skyphos for the relief of a sick symposiast, a lamp stand that also accommodates a ladle and strainer, and krotala (castanets) and a picnic basket suspended from the back wall. Compared with the figures on the outside, the satyr and maenad (followers of the wine god, Di
Terracotta kylix (drinking cup) ca. 480 Signed by Hieron Interior, flute-playing satyr and maenadExterior, obverse and reverse, symposiumThe exterior provides a particularly full illustration of the symposium (drinking party) and, especially, of its paraphernalia: a wreathed column-krater for mixing wine and water, a large skyphos for the relief of a sick symposiast, a lamp stand that also accommodates a ladle and strainer, and krotala (castanets) and a picnic basket suspended from the back wall. Compared with the figures on the outside, the satyr and maenad (followers of the wine god, Dionysos) appear formal Terracotta kylix (drinking cup) 250995 : Signed by Hieron, : Attributed to Makron, Terracotta kylix (drinking cup), ca. 480 , Terracotta, H. 5 7/16 in. ( cm) diameter 13 1/16 in. ( cm). The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Rogers Fund, 1920 ()
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