Skyphos with Silenus and maenad

Amykos Painter (active ca. 430-ca. 400 BCE in Lucania)


Item type:
vessel
Date of creation:
ca. 480-400 BCE
Technique / Medium:
red figure painting
Place of creation:
Ellás

    Item location

  • Museo di Antichità (Torino)
    [Museum inv. no.: 4112]

Description

Side A: A maenad with richly draped chiton handing a kantharos to a bearded Silenus leaning against a rock.
Side B: Ithyphallic Silenus playing an aulos and a dancing maenad.

Instruments [MIMO Code] (notes)

Aulos [4173]

RIdIM images


Bibliographic references

Santarelli, Cristina. "The collections of Greek and Italiot pottery of the Museo di Antichità, Turin", Music in Art 30/1-2 (2005) 244-254. RILM 2005-7129.

Santarelli, Cristina. "Iconografia musicale nella ceramica greca e italiota del Museo di Antichità di Torino", Miscellanea di studi 5, ed. by Alberto Basso (Torino: Istituto per i Beni Musicali in Piemonte, 2003) 7-40.

Notes

Proto-Italiot Style

RIdIM record id

3010