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Red-Figure Column Krater (Mixing Vessel): Satyrs Pursuing Maenads

Red-Figure Column Krater (Mixing Vessel): Satyrs Pursuing Maenads

440–430 BCE

attributed to Naples Painter

(Greek, Attic, active c. 450–430 BCE)
Overall: 41.5 cm (16 5/16 in.)
Location: 102B Greek

Did You Know?

The column krater takes its name from the column-like struts supporting the handles and rim.

Description

Two satyr-maenad pairs rush across this vase, similar but not identical to one another. The leading satyr is balding and infibulated, the trailing one more hirsute; the leading maenad carries a thyrsos, the trailing one two torches. On the reverse, a stock scene appears, with three youths standing, as if in conversation.
  • ?-1924
    Ludwig Pollak, Rome, Italy, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art
    1924-
    The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
  • Beazley Archive. n.d. Beazley Archive Pottery Database. Oxford: Beazley Archive. BAPD 216072 www.beazley.ox.ac.uk
    Beazley, J. D. Attic Red-Figure Vase-Painters. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1963. p. 1097, No. 10
    Boulter, C. G., Jenifer Neils, and Gisela Walberg. Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1971. p. 19, Plates 29-30 www.beazley.ox.ac.uk
    Carpenter, Thomas H., J. D. Beazley, Thomas Mannack, Melanie Mendonça, and Lucilla Burn. Beazley Addenda: Additional References to ABV, ARV² & Paralipomena. Oxford: Published for the British Academy by Oxford University Press, 1989. p. 328
    Immerwahr, Henry R. A Corpus of Attic Vase Inscriptions (CAVI). [Place of publication not identified]: [publisher not identified], 1998. p. 790, no. 3198
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