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Fragment of mixing bowl (volute krater) with Dionysos
Greek
Late Archaic or Early Classical Period
about 480 B.C.
Place of Manufacture: Greece, Attica, Athens
Medium/Technique
Ceramic, Red Figure
Dimensions
Height: 8.5 cm (3 3/8 in.)
Credit Line
Catharine Page Perkins Fund
Accession Number95.58
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsAncient Greece and Rome
ClassificationsVessels
Catalogue Raisonné
Caskey-Beazley, Attic Vase Paintings (MFA), no. 093.
DescriptionFragment of a volute krater.
A bearded male head and shoulders, wreathed in small leaves (myrtle?). Part of a grapevine in background. Shoulder of another person with long hair to the right. One of the figures is probably Dionysus, the god of wine, because of the presence of the grapevine.
A bearded male head and shoulders, wreathed in small leaves (myrtle?). Part of a grapevine in background. Shoulder of another person with long hair to the right. One of the figures is probably Dionysus, the god of wine, because of the presence of the grapevine.
ProvenanceBy 1893: with Edward Perry Warren (according to Warren's records: Bought in Rome 1893. Marked Cività Castellana); 1895: purchased by MFA from Edward Perry Warren for $ 29,857.37 (this figure is the total price for MFA 95.9-95.174)