Side A: woman standing at left.

Side A: woman at right.

Side A: woman playing lyre, detail of head and upper body. Detail of relie...

Side A: woman seated playing the lyre.

Side B: oblique view from left.

Side A: woman playing lyre, detail of head and upper body.

Collection: Martin von Wagner Museum, University of Würzburg
Summary: Side A: Three women playing music; ErosSide B: three youths
Ware: Attic Red Figure
Painter: Attributed to the Christie Painter
Date: ca. 440 BC - ca. 430 BC
Dimensions:

H. 0.391 m.
Primary Citation: ARV2, 1046, 7; Beazley Addenda 2, 320.
Shape: Calyx krater
Period: High Classical

Decoration Description:

Side A: Scene of women playing music. In the middle of the scene a woman sits on a chair, holding a lyre and flanked by women standing on either side. Eros comes flying from the right. Behind her a woman is standing at left, resting her left hand on the back of the chair. The woman at right holds in her right hand the double pipes (aulos) and in her left a cradle-kithara. She is dressed in belted peplos. Between her and the seated woman, Eros, naked and with wings, like a little child, is flying to the left into the scene. There are diverse objects around the room: a chair, an open box between the seated woman and the woman at right, and, on the wall, are hanging several objects like a taenia and a crosslike instrument of unknown meaning and use.

Side B: Three youths in the palaestra. Three young men draped in himatia talk in the palaestra. The one at left carries a strigil and the one at right opens his hand showing a astragalos (knucklebone used in games). All of them hold knotted sticks. Hanging on the wall between them is a bag for the astragaloi.

Collection History:

From the Feoli Collection

Sources Used:

Simon 1975b, 140.

Other Bibliography:

Wegner, Das Musikleben der Griechen, 1949, 20; Simon, Gnomon 44, 1972, 421.; Beck 1975, pl. 83. 404; CVA, 2, pls. 19.5-11; Moon 1983, 219, fig. 14.24; Paquette 1984, 129; Keuls 1985, 126, fig. 11.