Terracotta hydria: kalpis (water jar)

Attributed to the Villa Giulia Painter

On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 157

Satyr with young Dionysos between women

After Dionysos was born from the thigh of his father, Zeus, he was brought up by the nymphs on Mount Nysa; its location was indeterminate but probably in northern Greece. The representation here presents a conflation of the nymphs and the maenads who were to become his female followers.

Terracotta hydria: kalpis (water jar), Attributed to the Villa Giulia Painter, Terracotta, Greek, Attic

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Terracotta hydria: kalpis (water jar), Attributed to the Villa Giulia Painter, Terracotta, Greek, Attic
Terracotta hydria: kalpis (water jar), Attributed to the Villa Giulia Painter, Terracotta, Greek, Attic

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