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Red-Figure Ram-Head Rhyton (Drinking Vessel): Symposiasts; Satyr and Maenad

c. 480–470 BCE

attributed to Brygos Painter

(Greek, Attic, active c. 490–470 BCE)
Culture
Greek, Attic
Medium
ceramic
Measurements
Overall: 19 x 12.8 cm (7 1/2 x 5 1/16 in.); Diameter of rim: 11.4 cm (4 1/2 in.)
Credit Line
Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund 1988.8
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Location
102B Greek
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This vessel once had a foot, but only a bit of its stem remains.

Description

Although now missing nearly half of its mold-made ram’s head, this rhyton, a kind of drinking horn, retains most of its painted red-figure sections. On the wheel-made bowl above, three symposiasts recline at a drinking party: a youth wearing a kidaris (flapped Scythian hat) and two bearded men holding drinking cups. The youth plays the pipes, while a lyre hangs nearby and one man throws his head back in song. The letters around them, which do not spell out known words, may allude to the music in the air. Flanking the handle are a pipe-playing satyr and a dancing maenad (only partially preserved).
Ceramic rhyton, a drinking vessel in the shape of an animal, in this case a ram's head with a black cylindrical opening decorated with people extending from above the orange, curled ram's horn and a half-heart shaped black handle at the back of the head. The ram has an orange muzzle and a round eye with a black outline that trails down the muzzle in two tendrils. Dark red colors the edge of the face.

Red-Figure Ram-Head Rhyton (Drinking Vessel): Symposiasts; Satyr and Maenad

c. 480–470 BCE

Brygos Painter

(Greek, Attic, active c. 490–470 BCE)
Greek, Attic

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