Satyr and Dionysus
- Title
- Satyr and Dionysus
- Repository
- British Museum
- Alternative
- Bell krater Old Catalogue 1340 Vase F153
- Creator
- Asteas
- Photographer
- Lowenstam, Steven
- Creator Display
- attributed to Asteas (Greek vase painter, active ca. 350-320 BCE)
- Description
- Pottery: red-figured bell-krater. Designs red on black ground, with accessories of white and yellow on both sides. Above the designs, laurel wreath; below, wave-pattern; below the handles, palmettes. (a) Youthful Satyr moving to left, with wreath, bracelets, circlet of beads round left thigh, shoes, fruit in left hand, torch in right, by the light of which he explores the way. He is followed by Dionysos, who is beardless, with long hair, wreath, bracelets, beaded shoulder-belt, circlet of beads round left thigh, shoes, and chlamys with border of dots over left arm and right thigh, in right hand a bunch of grapes (?), in left a thyrsos tied with a taenia; between them hangs a taenia. (b) Two ephebi conversing, with wreaths, himatia, and shoes, staff in hand; the one on the left holds out a string of beads in right hand. --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; Smith, A H; Pryce, F N, Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum: Great Britain 2, British Museum 2, London, BMP, 1926
- View
- Front
- Coverage
- Paestum, Campania, Italy (creation)
- Temporal
- 360-340 BCE
- Subject
- Asteas Pottery VI--Italian
- Style Period
- Red-figure Paestan (pottery style)
- Work Type
- bell kraters
- Date
- -0360/-0340
- Identifier
- Lowenstam_VRC_06757
- Item Locator
- Box 15, Section 20
- 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: 32.6 cm Diameter: 31.8 cm Weight: 2 kg
- Material
- pottery | painted
- Set
- Lowenstam Collection of Ancient Western Art and Archaeology
- Primary Set
- Lowenstam Collection of Ancient Western Art and Archaeology
- Institution
- University of Oregon
- Id Current Repository
- 1772,0320.149
