Interior, flute-playing satyr and maenad Exterior, obverse and reverse, symposium
The exterior provides a particularly full illustration of the symposium (drinking party) and, especially, of its paraphernalia: a wreathed column-krater for mixing wine and water, a large skyphos for the relief of a sick symposiast, a lamp stand that also accommodates a ladle and strainer, and krotala (castanets) and a picnic basket suspended from the back wall. Compared with the figures on the outside, the satyr and maenad (followers of the wine god, Dionysos) appear formal indeed.
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Title:Terracotta kylix (drinking cup)
Artist:Signed by Hieron as potter
Artist: Attributed to Makron
Period:Classical
Date:ca. 480 BCE
Culture:Greek, Attic
Medium:Terracotta; red-figure
Dimensions:H. 5 7/16 in. (13.8 cm) diameter 13 1/16 in. (33.2 cm)
Classification:Vases
Credit Line:Rogers Fund, 1920
Object Number:20.246
Signature: Signed by Hieron as potter
“Probably, but not certainly, from Vulci” (Beazley 1971, p. 378)
Excavated by Vincenzo Campanari; 1837, purchased in Naples by Victor Louis Mottez from Vincenzo Campanari; 1837-1897, collection of V.L. Mottez, Paris, then UK (after 1848); 1897, inherited by his son, Henry Mottez; 1897-1920, collection of H. Mottez, UK; acquired in April 1920, purchased from H. Mottez.
Richter, Gisela M. A. 1923. "Athenian Pottery: Recent Accessions." Bulletin of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, 18(11): pp. 253–54, 256, fig. 1.
Richter, Gisela M. A. and Lindsley F. Hall. 1936. Red-Figured Athenian Vases in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. no. 53, pp. 75–76, pls.50, 53, 54, 180, New Haven: Yale University Press.
Hill, Dorothy Kent. 1942. "Wine Ladels and Strainers from Ancient Times." The Journal of the Walters Art Gallery, 5: pp. 44, 52, fig. 4.
Richter, Gisela M. A. 1946. Attic Red-Figured Vases: A Survey. p. 63, figs. 24e–f, New Haven: Yale University Press.
Metzger, Henri. 1951. Les représentations dans la céramique attique du IVe siècle. no. 23, pp. 13, 24, 26, Paris: E. de Boccard.
Richter, Gisela M. A. 1953. Handbook of the Greek Collection. p. 73, Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press.
Richter, Gisela M. A. 1958[1946]. Attic Red-Figured Vases: A Survey, Revised Edition, 2nd edn. p. 63, figs. 24e–f, New Haven: Yale University Press.
Beazley, John D. 1963[1942]. Attic Red-figure Vase-painters, Vols. 1 and 2, 2nd ed. pp. 467, 481, 1654, no. 118, Add. 1, pp. 458–80, Oxford: Clarendon Press.
Beazley, John D. 1971. Paralipomena: Additions to Attic Black-Figure Vase-Painters and to Attic Red-Figure Vase-Painters [2nd edition]. p. 378, Oxford: Clarendon Press.
von Bothmer, Dietrich. 1972. Greek Vase Painting: An Introduction. p. 7, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Mertens, Joan R. 1976. "A Hellenistic Find in New York." Metropolitan Museum Journal, 11: pp. 74–75, fig. 7.
Mertens, Joan R. 1976. "A Hellenistic Find in New York." Metropolitan Museum Journal, 11: pp. 74–75, fig. 7.
von Bothmer, Dietrich. 1984. "A Greek and Roman Treasury." Bulletin of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 42(1): p. 8.
Cohen, Beth and University of Chicago Press. 1991. "The Literate Potter: A Tradition of Incised Signatures on Attic Vases." Metropolitan Museum Journal, 26: pp. 70–73, figs. 38–39.
Kunisch, Norbert. 1997. Makron. pl. 377, Mainz am Rhein: Verlag Philipp von Zabern.
Sini, Thalia. 1997. "A Symposion Scene on an Attic Fourth-Century Calyx-krater in St. Petersburg." Greek Offerings: Essays on Greek Art in Honour of John Boardman, Dr. Olga Palagia, ed. p. 164 n. 22, Oxford: Oxbow Books.
Miller, Margaret C. 1999. "Reexamining Transvestism in Archaic and Classical Athens: The Zewadski Stamnos." American Journal of Archaeology, 103(2): p. 244–45, fig. 22.
Blundell, Sue. 2002. "Clutching at Clothes." Women's Dress in the Ancient Greek World, Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones, ed. p. 167 n. 56, London: Gerald Duckworth.
Mertens, Joan R. 2010. How to Read Greek Vases. no. 23, pp. 13, 24, 26, 81, 98, 116–20, 139, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Lezzi-Hafter, Adrienne, Cécile Jubier-Galinier, Leslie Threatte, Jan-Matthias Müller, and Kristine Gex. 2016. Potters - Painters - Scribes : Inscriptions on Attic Vases, Rudolf Wachter, ed. p. 143, Zürich: Akanthus Verlag für Archäologie.
Metropolitan Museum of Art. 2017. The Artist Project : What Artists See When They Look at Art. pp. 116–17, New York.
Saunders, David and Megan E. O'Neil. 2024. Picture Worlds : Storytelling on Greek, Moche, and Maya pottery pp. 31–32, fig. 11, pl. 3, Los Angeles: J. Paul Getty Museum.
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