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Lidded jar (stamnos) with female worshipers of Dionysos
Greek
Early Classical Period
about 450 B.C.
Place of Manufacture: Greece, Attica, Athens
Medium/Technique
Ceramic, Red Figure
Dimensions
Height: 33 cm (13 in.)
Credit Line
Henry Lillie Pierce Fund
Accession Number01.8083a-b
CollectionsAncient Greece and Rome
ClassificationsVessels
Catalogue Raisonné
Caskey-Beazley, Attic Vase Paintings (MFA), no. 038.
DescriptionSide A: Women with olive twig, woman with thyrsos, a third woman.
Side B: Three women; the one in the center carries a thyrsos and kantharos. Graffite on base.
(b) Cover.
Graffito on base.
[Label text]:
Six women participate in a festival of Dionysus in this painted scene. Two women carry thyrsoi, one carries a kantharos, and the others bear vines or twigs. It is possible that the women are celebrating the Anthesteria, an early spring holiday celebrating the opening of new wine.
Side B: Three women; the one in the center carries a thyrsos and kantharos. Graffite on base.
(b) Cover.
Graffito on base.
[Label text]:
Six women participate in a festival of Dionysus in this painted scene. Two women carry thyrsoi, one carries a kantharos, and the others bear vines or twigs. It is possible that the women are celebrating the Anthesteria, an early spring holiday celebrating the opening of new wine.
InscriptionsΜΙΛΕ
ProvenanceBy date unknown: said to have been formerly in the Pasquale collection at Curti, near S. Maria di Capua, and found in that neighborhood (with 01.8082) (according to L. D. Caskey and J. D Beazley, Attic Vase Paintings in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, no. 38); by 1901: with E. P. Warren (according to Warren's records: Bought at Curti near S. Maria di Capua.); purchased for MFA from E. P. Warren, December 1901.