Dionysos, satyr, and goat (Terracotta lekythos (oil flask))

Bowdoin Painter (active ca. 500-ca. 475 BCE) (workshop of)


Item type:
vessel
Date of creation:
ca. 480 BCE
Height:
23.7 cm  (9 5/16 in.)
Width:
8.3 cm  (3 1/4 in.)
Technique / Medium:
terracotta (black-figured on white ground)
School:
Attic

    Item location

  • Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York)
    [Museum inv. no.: 08.258.28]

Description

Dionysos holding a kantharos in his right hand and a vine branch in his left; on the left a goat, on the right a satyr playing aulos.

Iconclass

92L1
(story of) Bacchus (Dionysus), Liber

Instruments [MIMO Code] (notes)

Aulos [4173]

RIdIM images


Image URLs

image link 1

RIdIM record id

3879