Bell krater with symposium scene

Black-Thyrsus Painter (active ca. 400-ca. 366 BCE) (attributed to)

Item type:

vessel

Date of creation:

ca. 350-340 BCE

Technique / Medium:

red figure painting

Place of creation:

Attica (Ellás)

School:

Attic

Description

Side A: Two crowned youths, lying on klinai in front of a table with food, listening to an aulos player; another woman, standing, pours liquid into a phiale.
Side B: Three cloacked men around a column: the one on the right is clasping a tympanon in his hand, the central one is wrapping a cloak around himself, and the one on the right is gesticulating.

Instruments [MIMO Code] (notes)

Aulos [4173] (being played, on side A)
Tympanon [3705] (held, on side B)

RIdIM images

Bibliographic references

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.

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.

RIdIM record id

3022