Calyx-krater (mixing bowl) with a papposilen and Dionysos
Artist:
Workshop of Asteas
Place made:Paestum, Italy, Europe
Culture: South Italian
Date: ca. 350-340 B.C.
Medium: Terracotta, red-figure technique
Dimensions:
h. 13 3/16 in. (33.5 cm)
mouth: diam. 12 5/8 in. (32 cm)
foot: diam. 6 1/8 in. (15.6 cm)
Credit Line: Purchased with funds provided by Gilbert M. Denman, Jr.
Object number: 86.32.2
Provenance: sold by Galerie Günter Puhze, Freiburg, to the San Antonio Museum of Art, 1986
Published References
A.D. Trendall, The Red-figured Vases of Paestum (London: British School at Rome, 1987), 106-107, no. 139a, pl. 241 a-b
H.A. Shapiro, C.A. Picón, and G.D. Scott, III, eds., Greek Vases in the San Antonio Museum of Art (San Antonio, 1995), 236-7, no. 119
Label Text
Side A: A papposilen (elderly satyr) and Dionysos
Side B: Two youths
To the left on the obverse of the krater is a papposilen, whose body is covered with small tufts of white hair. In his outstretched hand he proffers a white ribbon, or fillet, to a half-draped Dionysos. (Jessica Powers, 2008)
Side B: Two youths
To the left on the obverse of the krater is a papposilen, whose body is covered with small tufts of white hair. In his outstretched hand he proffers a white ribbon, or fillet, to a half-draped Dionysos. (Jessica Powers, 2008)
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