Dancing Maenad
- Title
- Dancing Maenad
- Repository
- British Museum
- Alternative
- Skyphos Vase F253
- Creator
- Asteas and Python Workshop Python II
- Photographer
- Lowenstam, Steven
- Creator Display
- Asteas and Python Workshop (Greek vase painters, active 4th century BCE in Paestum); attributed to Python II (Greek vase painter, active 4th century BCE)
- Description
- Pottery: red-figured skyphos (cup). Designs red on black ground, with accessories. Above each design, egg-moulding; below, all round, wave-pattern; under the handles, palmettes. (a) Aegipan moving to left, beardless, with wreath, two short horns in front, string of beads over right shoulder; goat's legs and lower part of body covered with shaggy hair; in left hand a thyrsos with taenia tied round it, in right he holds out a rhyton. In the field, two rosettes of dots. (b) Female figure dancing to left, with head thrown right back, bushy hair, long chiton with a stripe down the front, sandals, bracelet on right arm which is extended, in left a staff. Behind her hang a taenia and a mirror; below is a rosette of dots. --The British Museum 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) Apulia, Italy (discovery)
- Temporal
- 360-320 BCE
- Subject
- Pottery VI--Italian Python
- Style Period
- Red-figure Paestan (pottery style)
- Work Type
- skyphoi
- Date
- -0360/-0320
- Identifier
- Lowenstam_VRC_06669
- Item Locator
- Box 15, Section 12
- 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: 15.7 cm Width: 24.4 cm Weight: 874 g
- 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
- 1867,0508.1171
