Pyrrhic dance

Athena Painter (500-ca. 475 BCE)


Item type:
vessel
Date of creation:
5th century BCE
Height:
18.4 cm  (7 1/4 in.)
Technique / Medium:
black-figure terracotta
School:
Attic

Additional titles

Lekythos

    Item location

  • Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York)
    [Museum inv. no.: 06.1021.75]

Description

Instrumental player between pyrrhic dancers; the instrument might be an aulos or an salpinx (the instrument's end is not visible) because of the way the instrumentalist is holding the instrument (between to fingers) it is probably a salpinx.

Instruments [MIMO Code] (notes)

Salpinx [4436]

RIdIM images


Image URLs

image link 1

RIdIM record id

3867