Although satyr iconography tends to focus on the specific pursuits of Dionysos, the god of wine, and his followers, satyrs occasionally are cast in human roles. The satyr's meal is contained in a skyphos (deep drinking cup) that stands on a support of indeterminate shape. With the stick in his left hand, he seems to be stoking a fire beneath the support.
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Title:Terracotta kylix (drinking cup)
Artist:Attributed to the Euaion Painter
Period:Classical
Date:ca. 460–450 BCE
Culture:Greek, Attic
Medium:Terracotta; red-figure
Dimensions:Diam.: 6 7/8 in. (17.5 cm)
Classification:Vases
Credit Line:Rogers Fund, 1906
Object Number:06.1021.177
Said to have been found in Capua (Beazley 1963, p.797, no. 138)
Hôtel Drouot. 1903. Collection d'Antiquités Grecques & Romaines: vases peints et moulés, terres cuites, verrerie, sculptures, bronzes, bijoux. May 11–14, 1903. no. 131, p. 47.
Canessa, Ercole and Arthur Sambon. 1904. Vases Antiques de Terre Cuite: Collection Canessa, Bibliothèque du Musée. no. 86, p. 27, pl. V, Paris.
Beazley, John D. 1918. Attic Red-Figured Vases in American Museums. p. 158, Cambridge: Harvard University Press.
Hoppin, James C. 1919. A Handbook of Attic Red-Figure Vases, Vol. 1. no. 16, p. 353, Cambridge: Harvard University Press.
Beazley, John D. 1925. Attische Vasenmaler des rotfigurigen Stils. no. 52, p. 359, Tübingen: J.C.B. Mohr.
Richter, Gisela M. A. 1927. Handbook of the Classical Collection. p. 129, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Richter, Gisela M. A. and Lindsley F. Hall. 1936. Red-Figured Athenian Vases in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. no. 107, pp. 138–39, pls. 107, 181, New Haven: Yale University Press.
Beazley, John D. 1942. Attic Red-figure Vase-painters. no. 95, p. 531, Oxford: Clarendon Press.
Richter, Gisela M. A. 1946. Attic Red-Figured Vases: A Survey. p. 107, fig. 87, New Haven: Yale University Press.
Callipolitis-Feytmans, Denise. 1948. Les Vases Grecs de la Bibliothèque royale de Belgique, Cabinet des médailles. p. 67, Bruxelles: Editions de la Librairie Encyclopédique.
Metzger, Henri. 1951. Les représentations dans la céramique attique du IVe siècle. p. 26, fig. 12, Paris: E. de Boccard.
Richter, Gisela M. A. 1953. Handbook of the Greek Collection. p. 86, Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press.
Richter, Gisela M. A. 1958[1946]. Attic Red-Figured Vases: A Survey, Revised Edition, 2nd edn. p. 107, fig. 87, New Haven: Yale University Press.
Beazley, John D. 1963[1942]. Attic Red-figure Vase-painters, Vols. 1 and 2, 2nd ed. p. 797, no. 138, Oxford: Clarendon Press.
Pinney, Gloria Ferrari and Brunilde Sismondo Ridgway. 1979. Aspects of Ancient Greece no. 45, pp. 96–97, Allentown, Penn.: Allentown Art Museum.
Mitchell, Alexandre G. 2009. Greek Vase-painting and the Origins of Visual Humour. pp. 201 n. 230, 289, 294, New York: Cambridge University Press.
Mertens, Joan R. 2010. How to Read Greek Vases. p. 26, fig. 12, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
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