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Two-handled jar (amphora) depicting Dionysos seated with a satyr and Dionysos with a woman (Ariadne?)

Greek
Archaic Period
about 525 B.C.
Place of Manufacture: Greece, Attica, Athens

Medium/Technique Ceramic, Red Figure
Dimensions Height: 13.5 cm (5 5/16 in.); diameter: 14 cm (5 1/2 in.)
Credit Line Bartlett Collection—Museum purchase with funds from the Francis Bartlett Donation of 1900
Accession Number03.790
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsVessels

Catalogue Raisonné Caskey-Beazley, Attic Vase Paintings (MFA), no. 116.
DescriptionOnly body of vase preserved.
Side A: Dionysos seated with Seilenos kneeling before him.
Side B: A woman facing another seated draped figure.
ProvenanceBy 1903: with Edward Perry Warren (according to Warren's records: Bought in Rome (Hartwig).); purchased by MFA from Edward Perry Warren, March 24, 1903