Mixing Bowl (calyx-krater with a sacrifice scene)
Date: ca. 420-410 B.C.
Dimensions:h. 14 9/16 in. (37 cm)
rim: diam. 15 3/4 in. (40 cm); foot: diam. 7 3/8 in. (18.8 cm)
Credit Line: Purchased with funds provided by Gilbert M. Denman, Jr.
Object number: 85.120.2
Provenance: with Münzen und Medaillen, Basel, by 1980; sold by Münzen und Medaillen to San Antonio Museum of Art, 1985
Published References
Munzen und Medaillen, Basel, Auktion 56 (19 February 1980) lot 107
Antike Kunst 23 (1980) p. 104-5
F. Brommer, "Satyrspielvasen in Malibu," Greek Vases in the J. Paul Getty Museum 1 (1983) 120, no. 348
LIMC II 298 s.v. Apollon, no. 955
K. Schefold and F. Jung, Die Urkönige, Perseus, Bellerophon, Herakles und Theseus in der klassischen und hellenistischen Kunst (Munich, 1988) 77-79, fig. 88
H.A. Shapiro, C.A. Picon, G.D. Scott, III, eds., Greek Vases in the San Antonio Museum of Art (San Antonio, 1995), 188-190, no. 95
S. Bundrick, Music and Image in Classical Athens (Cambridge University Press, 2005), 156-57, fig. 91.
S. Bundrick, "Selling Sacrifice on Classical Athenian Vases," Hesperia 83 (2014), 670, 700.
M. Gaifman, The Art of Libation in Classical Athens (Yale University Press, 2018), 38-42, figs. 1.19A-C.
Label TextSide A: Sacrifice in a sanctuary of Apollo
Side B: A satyr and maenads
Apollo, seated at upper right, holds a lyre while observing a sacrifice. One youth pours a libation over an altar, and two others hold spits with entrails to be roasted as part of the sacrifice. (Jessica Powers, 2008)
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