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Dionysos, from the waist up

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Standing maiden, from the waist up

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Youth holding staff and seated in left profile

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Youth holding staff and seated in left profile, from the waist up

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Handle at left rear

Collection: Johns Hopkins University Museum, Baltimore
Summary: Seated youth and Dionysos flanked by two women
Ware: South Italian Red Figure
Context: From near Capua
Date: ca. 350 BC - 325 BC
Dimensions:

H. 0.317 m., D. rim 0.092 m., D. foot 0.131 m.

Primary Citation: Trendall 1967, 480, no. 282, pl. 185.
Shape: Squat lekythos
Region: Apulia
Period: Late Classical/Early Hellenistic


Decoration Description:

A youth seated in left profile turns his head to gaze behind him. He is nude except for a mantle draped across his waist and legs. He holds a staff in his outstretched right hand. Behind him is draped standing maiden, turning to her left. In front of her is Dionysos, seated three-quarters to his right with a nude torso, a mantle draped over his legs. In his right hand he holds a thyrsos. He turns his head to glance back at a standing female in left profile who holds a thyrsos in her right hand. There is extensive use of added white.

Tongues surround the lower half of the neck; a band of wave pattern is on the shoulder above the reserved band. The figures stand on a white band enclosed by black bounding lines. Beneath is a band of wave pattern beneath a dotted white line, then white and black bands. At the back is a seventeen-petal palmette amid scrolls.

Essay:

RW No. 120

Collection History:

Gift of the Brooklyn Museum.

Sources Used:

Williams 1984, 186, no. 120