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T60.2 SATYR & MAENAD

Satyr & Maenad | Attic red figure vase painting
DETAILS
Museum Collection Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Catalogue No. New York 06.1152
Beazley Archive No. -
Ware Attic Red Figure
Shape Kylix
Painter Attributed to Makron
Date ca. 490 – 480 B.C.
Period Archaic

DESCRIPTION

A lascivious Satyr embraces a Maenad nymph. The Satyr has the ears and tail of an ass and wears a crown of ivy. The nymph holds a thyrsus--a pine-cone tipped staff borne by devotees of the god Dionysus.

ARTICLES

Satyrs, Oreads-Maenads