Column krater (mixing bowl for wine and water): lyre player in female dress
Pig Painter (active ca. 475-450 BCE) (style copy of)
- Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum
[Museum inv. no.: 1959.125]
Item location
Description
From museum website:A single heavily-bearded man facing right playing the lyre with a plectrum. He wears a long chiton with a mantle draped over his shoulder and a headdress with a wreath. His clothing style belongs to a category of similarly dressed men called “Anakreontic Dancers,” after the poet Anakreon who describes men dressing in this manner.
The figure belongs to a larger category of images and scenes called “Anakreontic Dancers” first identified by John D. Beazley and defined by Donna Kurtz and John Boardman whose characteristic features include the headdress, long chiton, heavy beard, and barbiton lyre. These vase images have a narrow date range from around 520 B.C.E. - 470 B.C.E. and are typically thought to be associated with East Greek practices and are a sub-category of the komos (drunken revelry) genre. ------
Sources: Boardman, John and Donna Kurtz. “Booners.” In Greek Vases in the J. Paul Getty Museum, v. 3. Eds. Jiri Frel and Marion True. Malibu: J. Paul Getty Museum, 1986, pp. 35-70.
Iconclass
48C75making music; musician with instrument
31D14
adult man
41D282
man dressed as woman, travesty
Instruments [MIMO Code] (notes)
Barbiton [3487]RIdIM images
