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T62.2 MAENAD NYMPH

Maenad Nymph | Attic red figure vase painting
DETAILS
Museum Collection Staatliche Antikensammlungen, Munich
Catalogue No. Munich 2645
Beazley Archive No. 203914
Ware Attic Red Figure (White Ground)
Shape Kylix
Painter Attributed to the Brygos Painter
Date ca. 590 B.C.
Period Late Archaic

DESCRIPTION

A Maenad-nymph dances with a thyrsus (pine-cone tipped staff) held in one hand and a leopard cub in the other. She wears a leopard-skin cape and her hair is bound with a live serpent.

ARTICLES

Maenads-Oreads, Dionysus