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Ram-Head Rhyton

c. 480-470 BC

Brygos Painter

(Greek)

Greece, Attic, 5th Century BC

Earthenware with slip decoration

Overall: 19 x 12.8 cm (7 1/2 x 5 1/16 in.); Diameter of rim: 11.4 cm (4 1/2 in.)

Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund 1988.8

Location

102B Greek

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A rhyton is a roughly conical bowl, usually in the shape of an animal head, from which fluids were intended to be drunk or to be poured.

Description

On the bowl three men recline at a drinking party (or symposium): a youth wearing a kidaris (a flapped Scythian hat) plays double pipes as a lyre hangs on the wall behind him; a bearded man holds a kylix in his extended right hand; and another bearded man holds a large skyphos to his chest. Before the heads of each symposiast is an identical nonsense inscription. Flanking the handle in the zone to the left, a satyr plays double pipes; in the zone to the right a maenad dances.

Provenance

Ariel Herrmann, New York

Citations

Miller, Margaret Christina. "Adoption and Adaptation of Achaemenid Metalware Forms in Attic Black-Gloss Ware of the Fifth Century," Archaeologische Mitteilungen aus Iran. Band 26 (1993): 109-146. See Tafel 25,2, with pp. 122-124.

Neer, Richard T. Style and Politics in Athenian Vase-Painting: The Craft of Democracy, Ca. 530-460 B.C.E. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2002. p. 21, fig. 3.

Guy, Robert. "A Ram's Head Rhyton Signed by Charinos," Arts in Virginia 21.2 (1981): 2-15. See figs. 9-11, pp. 5-6, 13 (n. 14).

Miller, Margaret Christina. Athens and Persia in the Fifth Century B.C.: A Study in Cultural Receptivity. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997. pp. 141-142, fig. 48.

Topper, Kathryn. The Imagery of the Athenian Symposium. 2012. New York: Cambridge University Press. p. 87, fig. 31.

Beazley Archive. n.d. Beazley Archive Pottery Database. Oxford: Beazley Archive. BAPD 44593 www.beazley.ox.ac.uk

Ramón Corzo Sánchez. "The golden ram at the Bilbao Fine Arts Museum", Buletina = Boletín = Bulletin. Bilbao : Bilboko Arte Ederren Museoa = Museo de Bellas Artes de Bilbao = Bilbao Fine Arts Museum, no. 7, 2013, pp. 15-47. CMA vase in fig. 13.

"The Year in Review for 1988." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 76, no. 2 (1989): 30-75. www.jstor.org

Exhibition history

The Year in Review for 1988. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (March 1-May 14, 1989).

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