AN APULIAN RED-FIGURE BELL KRATER

细节
AN APULIAN RED-FIGURE BELL KRATER
near the Group of the Dublin Situlae
Circa 360-350 B.C.

The A side with a dancing Maenad in the center, her head thrown back as she plays the tambourine held above her head, wearing chiton, sandals, earrings, and two bracelets on her right wrist, a fawn skin tied to her left arm, behind her a nude youth with a mantle draped behind him and over his arms, a thyrsos in his right hand, a kantharos in his left, and to her right, a nude satyr holding a situla in his right hand and supporting a calyx-krater in his left arm, a grape vine above, the B side with a nude youth in the center, a mantle draped behind him and over his left arm and held in his right, a thyrsos in his left hand, looking left towards a dancing maenad with a thyrsos and a tambourine, and to his right a nude satyr with a thyrsos and a wine skin, a band of meander below each scene, a band of laurel above, restored from fragments, minor losses, repainting along fractures, 16 7/16in. (41.8cm.) high