Column crater with Dionysus, maenad and silenus (Side A) and with two sileni and a maenad (Side B)

Agrigento Painter (active ca. 475-ca. 450 BCE)

Item type:

vessel

Date of creation:

ca. 460 BCE

Technique / Medium:

red figure painting

Place of creation:

Attica (Ellás)

School:

Attic

Description

Side A: In the centre, Dionysus, with a kantaros in his left hand and a staff, speaks to a silenus carrying a goatskin and a rhyton; to the left, a maenad dancing and shaking the krotala.
Side B: Two sileni dancing beside a maenad who is shaking a torch; the one on the left is ithyphallic and he is holding a large rhyton; the one on the right is carrying a goatskin.

Instruments [MIMO Code] (notes)

Crotales [2470]

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

3021