Obverse and reverse, between eyes, mask of Dionysos and of a satyr
During the last quarter of the sixth century B.C., the decoration of many drinking vessels consisted of themes relating to Dionysos, the god of wine. Here the main subject is a mask of Dionysos; a frequent alternative is the mask of a satyr. The popularity of the wine god in Archaic Attic art reflects initiatives of the ruling family, the Peisistratids, that concerned cults, festivals, and public performances involving Dionysos.
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Title:Terracotta column-krater (bowl for mixing wine and water)
Period:Archaic
Date:ca. 520–510 BCE
Culture:Greek, Attic
Medium:Terracotta; black-figure
Dimensions:H. 13 1/2 in. (34.3 cm) diameter 13 1/8 in. (33.3 cm)
Classification:Vases
Credit Line:Rogers Fund, 1906
Object Number:06.1021.101
[Until 1906, with C. and E. Canessa, Paris and Naples]; acquired 1906, purchased from C. and E. Canessa.
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Wrede, Henning. 1928. "Der Maskengott." Mitteilungen des Deutschen Archäologischen Instituts, Athenische Abteilung, 53: p. 66.
Metzger, Henri. 1951. Les représentations dans la céramique attique du IVe siècle. no. 16, pp. 24, 82, 86, Paris: E. de Boccard.
Richter, Gisela M. A. 1953. Handbook of the Greek Collection. pp. 63, 205, pl. 45d, Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press.
von Bothmer, Dietrich. 1970. "The Case of the Dunedin Painter: New Evidence." California Studies in Classical Antiquity, 3: p. 36.
Bell, E.E. 1977. "Two Krokotos Mask Cups at San Simeon." California Studies in Classical Antiquity, 10: pp. 9–11, pl. 12.
von Bothmer, Dietrich. 1978. Antichnoe iskusstvo iz muzeia Metropoliten, Soedinennye Shtaty Ameriki: Katalog vystavki. no. 36, Moscow: Sovetskii Khudozhnik.
Schauenburg, Konrad. 1982. "Zu einem spätarchaischen Kolonettenkrater in Lugano." Quaderni ticinesi di numismatica e antichità classiche, 11: p. 29, figs. 24, 25.
Mertens, Joan R. 2010. How to Read Greek Vases. no. 16, pp. 24, 82, 86, 90–94, 117, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
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