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AN ATTIC BLACK FIGURE PANEL-AMPHORA (TYPE B)
CIRCA 440-420 B.C.
Side A: Dionysos, wearing ivy wreath in his hair and clad in long chiton and himation, stands with rhyton in upraised left hand, he faces a standing female figure clad in a peplos and holding a wreath with dot-flowers, to either side of the couple stands a naked satyr, two vine tendrils flank Dionysos
Side B: Two naked satyrs dance with two maenads, each maenad with red fillet in her hair, wearing peplos with animal skin
The zone above the echinus foot has thirty-one vertical rays, the figure scenes are set in panels framed by a glazed line on the side and surmounted by frieze of conjoined downward-turned buds with dots in the interstices
11 in. (28 cm.) high
CIRCA 440-420 B.C.
Side A: Dionysos, wearing ivy wreath in his hair and clad in long chiton and himation, stands with rhyton in upraised left hand, he faces a standing female figure clad in a peplos and holding a wreath with dot-flowers, to either side of the couple stands a naked satyr, two vine tendrils flank Dionysos
Side B: Two naked satyrs dance with two maenads, each maenad with red fillet in her hair, wearing peplos with animal skin
The zone above the echinus foot has thirty-one vertical rays, the figure scenes are set in panels framed by a glazed line on the side and surmounted by frieze of conjoined downward-turned buds with dots in the interstices
11 in. (28 cm.) high