Terracotta stamnos (jar) ca. 450–440 Recalls the Barclay Painter Obverse, woman ladles wine from a stamnos into a phiale (libation bowl) while companions hold phiale and kantharosReverse, three women holding thyrsoiThe 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. The original Dionysos Lenaios was a column with a bearded mask. A number of Athenian vases show this idol surrounded by women ladling Terracotta stamnos (jar) 251031 : Recalls
Terracotta stamnos (jar) ca. 450–440 Recalls the Barclay Painter Obverse, woman ladles wine from a stamnos into a phiale (libation bowl) while companions hold phiale and kantharosReverse, three women holding thyrsoiThe 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. The original Dionysos Lenaios was a column with a bearded mask. A number of Athenian vases show this idol surrounded by women ladling Terracotta stamnos (jar) 251031 : Recalls the Barclay Painter, : Recalls the Thomson Painter, Terracotta stamnos (jar), ca. 450?440 , Terracotta, H. 12 1/4 in. ( cm). The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Rogers Fund, 1921 ()
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