Stamnos

MS400

Location: On Display in the Etruscan Italy Gallery

From: Greece | Greek Island

Curatorial Section: Mediterranean

Object Number MS400
Current Location Etruscan Italy Gallery - On Display
Culture Etruscan | Faliscan | Caeretan
Provenience Greece | Greek Island
Creator Painter of Wurzburg 817
Date Made 350-250 BCE
Section Mediterranean
Materials Ceramic
Technique Red Figure
Iconography Nike | Satyr | Thyrsus
Description

Etruscan Red-figured Stamnos. A. Nike wearing long, flowing garment advancing toward left, looking back toward right. Wings in white with yellow longitudinal markings.

B. Satyr advancing toward right looking back toward left holding a vertical thyrsus.

Area not occupied by figures is fully occupied by large palmette and foliage arrangements. Key pattern below scene and tongue pattern above; both around full circumference. Egg pattern on lip. Base modern, otherwise intact.

Height 27 cm
Width 25 cm
Credit Line Museum Purchase, 1896

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