Pelike with Elysian-Dionysian themes

Unknown (Apulian)

Item type:

vessel

Date of creation:

ca. 330 BCE

Technique / Medium:

red figure painting

Place of creation:

Apulia (Italia)

School:

Apulian Style

Description

Side A: Female figure with a cista, dressed in a chiton and himation, accepting a gift from a naked youth; on the left, a young girl looking at the couple and holding a tympanon in the right hand and a mirror in the left; above, a girl with a casket and a cupid.
SideB: Naked youth, with a chlamys over his arm and a phiale in his left hand, following a woman wearing the usual Apulian dress and holding a flabellum in the right hand and a crown of roses in the left.

Instruments [MIMO Code] (notes)

Tympanon [3705]

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

3065