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Accession_Number

42.9.1

Shape

Column krater

Shape_description

Two-stepped, ring-shaped base

Material

Terracotta

Fabric

Attic

Fabric_description

Munsell_color

5YR 7/6

Decoration

The rim (stephane) is decorated with a double horizontal bulleted strap. The neck of side A has a broad band ornamented with elleipsoid lines with lotus leaf-shaped endings. Body: Side A: Dionysos holding leafless vine branch and kantharos between 2 dancing maenads, one of whom wears a spotted skin over her drapery. The scene is surrounded (left and right) by vertical, bulleted zones in the form of antae that seem to support a horizontal band with tongues over the heads of the figures, making the scene look as if under a building. B: 3 youths (but with beards?) wrapped in himatia, with a pair of halteres hanging between the second and third youths, relief contour on A none on B, outline of hair (and beards?) reserved. The same decoration surrounds the 3.

Inscriptions

Condition

Almost half of stephane missing on side B, while the decoration of its remaining part is scraped off almost completely.No decoration on the neck. Deep crack from the beginning of the missing stephane down to the Krater's shoulder. Body pitted over entire surface, although side A is in better condition, with the exception of a gouge under the right arm of the left maenad. Incrustations around the chipped base.

Technique/Style

Red figure

Provenance

Period

Early Classical

Date

460-450

Dating_details

Artist

Attribution

Image

2002.99.0007.jpg	Left side view of an Attic red-figure column krater, showing a handle.
2002.99.0008.jpg	Back view of an Attic red-figure column krater, showing draped youths and suspended halteres.
2002.99.0018.jpg	Front view of an Attic red-figure column krater, showing Dionysos between maenads.
2002.99.0019.jpg	Right side view of an Attic red-figure column krater, showing a handle
2002.99.0020.jpg	Detail of the front of the body of an Attic red-figure column krater, showing Dionysos between maenads.
2002.99.0021.jpg	Detail of the front of the body of an Attic red-figure column krater, showing Dionysos between maenads.
2002.99.0022.jpg	Detail of the front of the body of an Attic red-figure column krater, showing Dionysos between maenads.
2003.23.0006.jpg	Back view (side B) of an Attic red-figure column krater, showing three draped youths and suspended halteres.
2003.23.0007.jpg	Front view (side A) of an Attic red-figure column krater, Dionysos dancing between two maenads.
2003.23.0008.jpg	Detailed view of the front (side A) an Attic red-figure column krater, showing Dionysos dancing between two maenads.
2003.61.0003.jpg	View of the front (side A) of an Attic red-figure column krater, showing Dionysos between maenads.
2003.61.0004.jpg	View of the back (side B) of an Attic red-figure column krater, showing draped youths and suspended halteres.
2003.61.0009.jpg	View of the front (side A) of an Attic red-figure column krater, showing Dionysos between maenads.