Ancient Greek Art: Satyr & Maenad

Satyr & Bacchante | Greek vase, Athenian red figure amphora

T60.13 SATYROS & MAINAS

Museum Collection: Antiken-sammlungen, Munich, Germany
Catalogue Number: Munich 2344
Beazley Archive Number: 201659
Ware: Attic Red Figure
Shape: Amphora, pointed
Painter: Attributed to the Kelophrades Painter
Date: ca 500 - 490 BC
Period: Late Archaic

NOTE

This image is a montage of two photos of the vase.

ARTICLES

Satyroi

SUMMARY

Detail of a Mainas and Satyros from a scene depicting the company of Dionysos. The Satyros is draped with a panther skin and plays a double-flute. He has the features typical of his kind: horse's ears and tail, pug nose and eret member. The Mainas Nymphe wields a thyrsos (pine cone tipped staff) and has her head thrown back in an orgiastic dance.