Maenads dancing before image of Dionysos

Marathon Painter (active ca. 500-ca. 480 BCE) (attributed to)


Item type:
vessel
Date of creation:
ca. 500-475 BCE
Height:
14.6 cm  (5 3/4 in.)
Technique / Medium:
terracotta (black-figured on white ground)
School:
Attic

Additional titles

Terracotta lekythos (oil flask)

    Item location

  • Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York)
    [Museum inv. no.: 75.2.21]

Description

Women dancing before an image of Dionysos possibly holding crotola.

Instruments [MIMO Code] (notes)

Crotala

RIdIM images


Image URLs

image link 1

RIdIM record id

3852