Dionysus and satyrs

Title: Dionysus and satyrs
Repository: British Museum
Alternative: Psykter Old Catalogue 596 Vase B148
Creator: Lydos
Photographer: Lowenstam, Steven
Creator Display: attributed to Lydos (Ancient Greek vase painter, active 565 -535 BCE)
Description: Pottery: black-figured psykter (wine-cooler) with double walls. Designs black on red panels, with palmette and lotus borders along the top; purple and white accessories, much faded. (a) Dionysiac group: On left a Maenad standing to right between two Satyrs, with long hair tied in a club, and long bordered chiton, over which is a nebris (fawn’s skin). Under the spout of the vase is a Satyr to left, on a smaller scale, stooping forward to caress a hare on the ground. Next to right is Dionysos, bearded, with long hair, ivy-wreath, long embroidered chiton and himation, keras (drinking horn) in left hand. In front of him is a Satyr advancing to right, in a dancing attitude, with left hand held above his head. All the Satyrs except the smaller one, the body of the hare, and the Maenad's nebris, are stippled all over, to indicate hair. (b) Theseus slaying the Minotaur: In the centre, Theseus to right (long hair, fillet, cuirass and short chiton, on which is a large rosette on his hip), holding the Minotaur's left arm with left hand, and plunging sword into his neck; blood falls from the wound. Beneath his legs is a conical stone (cf. Wien. Vorlegebl. 1889, pl. v., I b), on which he has laid his embroidered chlamys. The Minotaur has a bull's head with mane, and his body is stippled with hair; he has fallen on left knee, and his right arm grasps that of Theseus from behind, while in left he holds a stone. On each side of the centre group are two beardless male figures, representing Athenian victims; the one on the right and the one behind Theseus wear striped embroidered himatia; the one on the left is nude, the one behind the Minotaur has an embroidered chlamys over his shoulders, and hair tied in a club. All the figures have a lock of hair in front twisted over a fillet. --The British Museum A Catalogue of the Greek and Etruscan Vases in the British Museum, London, William Nicol, 1851; Walters, H B; Forsdyke, E J; Smith, C H, Catalogue of Vases in the British Museum, I-IV, London, BMP, 1893; Walters, H B, Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum: Great Britain 4, British Museum 3, London, BMP, 1927
View: Side
Coverage: Attica, Central Greece and Euboea, Greece (creation)
Temporal: ca. 560-540 BCE
Subject: Black Figure Lydos Pottery III
Style Period: Black-figure Attic (Mainland Greek pottery styles)
Work Type: psykters
Date: -0560/-0540
Identifier: Lowenstam_VRC_05248
Item Locator: Box 12, Section 4
Rights: In Copyright
Dc Rights Holder: University of Oregon, Department of Classics
Local Collection Name: Steven Lowenstam Collection
Type: Image
Format: image/tiff
Measurements: Height: 32 cm Width: 23 cm Weight: 2 kg
Material: pottery | painted; incised
Set: Lowenstam Collection of Ancient Western Art and Archaeology
Primary Set: Lowenstam Collection of Ancient Western Art and Archaeology
Institution: University of Oregon
Cultural Context: Attic (culture) Archaic (Greek culture or period)
Id Current Repository: 1848,0619.5