Lekythos
MS5706
Location: On Display in the Greece Gallery
From: Italy | Sicily | Agrigento
Curatorial Section: Mediterranean
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Object Number
MS5706
Current Location
Greece Gallery - On Display
Culture
Attic
Provenience
Italy | Sicily | Agrigento
Manufacture Location
Attica
Creator
Berlin Painter
Date Made
ca. 490 BCE
Section
Mediterranean
Materials
Ceramic
Technique
Red Figure
Iconography
Maenad | Thyrsus | Snake
Description
Maenad striding toward right, looking back. Thyrsus in right hand, snake in left. Maeander & cross below. Essentially complete; restored from a number of fragments.
Height
35.5 cm
Outside Diameter
13 cm
Credit Line
Purchased from Joseph Brummer, 1926
Current & Past Exhibitions
Bibliography
The Perseus Project View related objects
Beazley, John D. The Berlin Painter . revised ed. Mainz am Rhein: Verlag Philipp von Zabern, 1974. See: p. 13, no. 160
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Beazley, John D. Attic Red-figure Vase-painters . 2nd ed. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1963. See: p. 211, no. 201
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Beazley, John D. Attic Red-figure Vase-Painters . Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1942. See: p. 141, no. 160
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Dohan, Edith Hall. "Recent Additions to the Collection of Greek Vases ." The Museum Journal 19, no. 1. (1928): 72-84. See: pp. 73-75
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Beazley, John D. "Citharoedus." The Journal of Hellenic Studies 42. (1922): 70-98. See: p. 96, no. 108
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