Black-figure neck amphora with satyrs and maenads

Painter of Villa Giulia M.482 (active ca. 480-ca. 450 BCE) (attributed to)


Item type:
decorative art
Date of creation:
525-500 BCE
Height:
23.7 cm  (9 5/16 in.)
Width:
16.7 cm  (6 9/16 in.)
Diameter (mouth) 11.6cm; diameter (foot) 10.2cm
Technique / Medium:
earthenware
Place of creation:
Ellás

    Item location

  • Chau Chak Wing Museum (University of Sydney)
    Nicholson Collection[Museum inv. no.: NM98.25]From Nicholson Museum website: On the other side of the vase is an excerpt from the battle of Greeks and Amazons. A helmeted warrior carrying shield and spear forces an Amazon to the ground between two draped male figures holding spears.

Description

Satyr playing kithara.

Instruments [MIMO Code] (notes)

Kithara [4940] (8 strings, plucked with plectrum. From museum website: "The kithara is an elaborate version of the lyre with eight strings, a wooden sound-box (rather than the tortoise-shell of the lyre) and elaborate arms. It is usually shown as an instrument played by virtuosi at concerts, and this tells us something about how the scene was read by the ancient viewer.")

Image URLs

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RIdIM record id

1243