The Metropolitan Museum of Art - Terracotta stamnos (jar)

Terracotta stamnos (jar)

Period:: Classical
Date:: ca. 440 B.C.
Culture:: Greek, Attic
Medium:: Terracotta; red-figure
Dimensions:: H. 15 11/16 in. (39.9 cm); diameter of mouth 9 5/16 in. (23.6 cm); diameter of foot 5 3/8 in. (13.7 cm)
Classification:: Vases
Credit Line:: Fletcher Fund, 1956
Accession Number:: 56.171.52

This artwork is currently on display in Gallery 156

Description

Obverse, Dionysos, the god of wine, on donkey with two satyrs (his male followers)
Reverse, two maenads (female followers of Dionysos) and young satyr
References

von Bothmer, Dietrich. 1957. "Greek Vases from the Hearst Collection." The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin 15(7): pp. 166, 178.
See also
Who
Polygnotos Group (7)
What
Clay (23,649)

Vessels (21,921)

Vases (8,895)

Terracotta (8,373)

Stamnoi (26)
Where
Europe (148,590)

Greece (6,287)
When
1000 B.C.-A.D. 1 (23,149)
In the Museum
Greek and Roman Art (17,329)
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Ancient Greece, 1000 B.C.–1 A.D.