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Oil flask (lekythos) with maenad holding a thyrsos
Greek
Late Archaic or Early Classical Period
about 480 B.C.
Place of Manufacture: Greece, Attica, Athens
Medium/Technique
Ceramic, Red Figure
Dimensions
Height: 32.1 cm (12 5/8 in.)
Credit Line
Cornelia Prime Lowell Fund
Accession Number24.450
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsAncient Greece and Rome
ClassificationsVessels
Catalogue Raisonné
Caskey-Beazley, Attic Vase Paintings (MFA), no. 030.
DescriptionMaenad standing with thyrsos.
[Label text]:
A maenad with her thyrsos is depicted on this oil-jar. Maenads were women who had given up their traditional roles as housekeepers and mothers to follow Dionysos, the god of wine and revelry.
[Label text]:
A maenad with her thyrsos is depicted on this oil-jar. Maenads were women who had given up their traditional roles as housekeepers and mothers to follow Dionysos, the god of wine and revelry.
ProvenanceBy 1924: with E. P. Warren (according to a January 26, 1925, letter from Frank Gearing with the following provenance from Warren: from Selinus); purchased by MFA from E. P. Warren, December 4, 1924, for $ 2,000.00 (this figure is the total price for MFA 24.449 -24.453)