ATTRIBUTED TO THE MANNER OF THE GÖTTINGEN PAINTER, CIRCA 500 B.C.

One side of this krater features a Dionysiac procession, both led and trailed by a draped youth, the one to the left holding a skyphos and the one to the right holding a kylix. The scene is centered by Dionysos, shown with a long beard and wearing a diadem decorated with dots, and a maenad playing the double flute. On the other side are two warriors and a Scythian archer. The warriors are each shown wearing a crested Corinthian helmet and wielding a spear and a shield; the left warrior’s shield blazon features a composite-monster device and the right’s features a horse. The Scythian archer between them kneels and prepares to shoot an arrow.

For another red-figured column krater by Göttingen Painter with two warriors on one side, see the example in The Metropolitan Museum of Art (inv. no. 41.161.73; fig. 26 in J. Niels, The Youthful Deeds of Theseus).