Amphora with Apollo, Athena and Hermes, and Maenad with two silens

Antimenes Painter (active ca. 530-ca. 510 BCE)

Item type:

vessel

Date of creation:

ca. 520 BCE

Technique / Medium:

black figure painting

Place of creation:

Attica (Ellás)

School:

Attic

Description

Side A: Group of three gods: in the centre, Apollo standing with a kithara; in front of him, Athena sitting on a diphros; to the left of Apollo, Hermes walking toward the left and looking back.
Side B: Maenad dancing between two ithyphallic sileni who are playing the aulos.

Instruments [MIMO Code] (notes)

Kithara [4940] (On side A)
Aulos [4173] (2 aulos on side B)

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.

RIdIM record id

3017