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: | |
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.
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Collection History:
Gift of the Brooklyn Museum.
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