Terracotta stamnos (jar), Classical, ca. 450–440 , Greek, Attic, Terracotta; red-figure, H. 12 1/4 in. ( cm), Vases

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Terracotta stamnos (jar), Classical, ca. 450–440 , Greek, Attic, Terracotta; red-figure, H. 12 1/4 in. ( cm), Vases, Obverse, woman ladles wine from a stamnos into a phiale (libation bowl) while companions hold phiale and kantharos, Reverse, three women holding thyrsoi. The women preparing wine and holding thyrsoi, the wands associated with maenads, suggest that this scene relates to a festival of Dionysos Lenaios, celebrated in Athens toward the end of January

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