Fragments of a terracotta calyx-krater (mixing bowl) ca. 400–360 Very close in style to the work of the Dolon Painter Obverse, Herakles and BusirisReverse, Dionysos and AriadneDionysos was not only the god of wine, he was also intimately connected with ancient theater. The obverse depicts the popular subject of the Egyptian king Busiris who was preparing to sacrifice the Greek hero Herakles and was overcome instead. The representation probably reflects a satyr play. On the reverse, Dionysos reclines on a couch with Ariadne in an architectural interior that, like the obverse, indicates a s
Fragments of a terracotta calyx-krater (mixing bowl) ca. 400–360 Very close in style to the work of the Dolon Painter Obverse, Herakles and BusirisReverse, Dionysos and AriadneDionysos was not only the god of wine, he was also intimately connected with ancient theater. The obverse depicts the popular subject of the Egyptian king Busiris who was preparing to sacrifice the Greek hero Herakles and was overcome instead. The representation probably reflects a satyr play. On the reverse, Dionysos reclines on a couch with Ariadne in an architectural interior that, like the obverse, indicates a stage Fragments of a terracotta calyx-krater (mixing bowl) 254980 : Very close in style to the work of the Dolon Painter, Fragments of a terracotta calyx-krater (mixing bowl), ca. 400?360 , Terracotta, A-H. 8 11/16 in. (22 cm) B-H. 6 5/16 in. (16 cm) C-H. 4 1/8 in. ( cm). The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Gift of Joseph V. Noble, 1958 ()
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