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Fact Scan:Date: 500-490BC
Type: Pointed Amphora (Storing wine, oil, grains and small solids)
Technique: Red Figure (the figures are red!)
Potter: Kleophrades
Painter: Kleophrades Painter
Height: 56 cm
Subject: Dionysos with satyrs and maenads
2 x 3 athletes on the neck.
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Dionysos holding a kantharos, wearing a leopard skin and carrying a grape vine – appropriate for the god and the use of the vase.
Maenads with thrysos, deer skins and snakes.
Their hair is tied up by a saccus
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Satyr playing an aulos wears a deer skin – he is ithyphallic.
On either side are maenads. To the right a maenad in the throes of orgasm – her head thrown back, the twist on the thyrsos and the foot breaking out of the border. Her hair is black and curly.
Maenad on the left is blond haired (dilute slip) and trips along lightly – a post orgasmic glow?
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Satyr playing a double flute
Grotesque features
Dilute slip – internal muscles, moustache and deer skin
Full frontal face and chest; twist shown by lower abdominal line
Hairy tail
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Maenad in the throes of orgasm.
Drapery – folds, billowing, overlapping, revealing body
Anatomy – foot, arms, hands, breast(s)
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Violent twist in thrysos
Mouth open
Looking at a kalos inscription
Drapery - details
Anatomy – especially face
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Maenad – wistfully looking up.
She has almost forgotten the snake on the arm
Thrysos is at rest
Less movement
Looks upward towards a kalos inscription
Mouth slightly open – a sigh?
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Drapery
Anatomy
Dilute slip (metal effect on kantharos)
Identification
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3 athletes on each side – possibly this was given as a prize.
Anatomy
Implements
Poses
Dilute slip
Sponge bag and aryballos hang on the wall for anointing after sport
