Collection: | Museum of Fine Arts, Boston |
Summary: | Satyr pursuing a nude maenad, profile to the right |
Ware: | Attic Black Figure, Six's Technique |
Painter: | Attributed to the Diosphos Painter |
Attributed By: | C.H.E. Haspels |
Context: | From Gela |
Date: | ca. 500 BC |
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Shape: | Lekythos |
Beazley Number: | 361413 |
Period: | Late Archaic |
Decoration Description:
The satyr is drawn in outline technique on the black body while the maenad is painted in added white.
The shoulder is decorated (from top to bottom) with a tongue frieze over a spiral frieze; the top of the body is decorated with black bands interspersed with rows of dots; a reserved band decorates the molded base.
Inscriptions: Nonsense inscriptions surround the vase
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