Lekythos with Youths and Satyrs
Dublin Core
Title
Lekythos with Youths and Satyrs
Subject
TERRACOTTA
Description
An Athenian lekythos (oil flask) decorated in the black-figure style with a Dionysiac procession consisting of four figures.
The first figure wears a himation (cloak) and raises his hand in revelry. The second figure is a satyr (half goat/half man companion of Dionysos) with a full beard and holding a rhyton (drinking horn). The third figure continues the movement of the group towards the right and plays and aulos (double flute), with the fourth figure, naked except for a cloak around his shoulders, looks back at the group.
Between the figures are nonsense letters, imitating the labels seen on some vases.
The first figure wears a himation (cloak) and raises his hand in revelry. The second figure is a satyr (half goat/half man companion of Dionysos) with a full beard and holding a rhyton (drinking horn). The third figure continues the movement of the group towards the right and plays and aulos (double flute), with the fourth figure, naked except for a cloak around his shoulders, looks back at the group.
Between the figures are nonsense letters, imitating the labels seen on some vases.
Creator
Aegean
Greek
Archaic
Source
Purchased from ArtAncient, London, with funds from the Alumni Friends of The University of Queensland donated by Dr Stephen Papas, Brisbane, 2017.
Date
490 BC
Identifier
18.001
Coverage
Greece
Attica
Files
Citation
Aegean, Greek, and Archaic, “Lekythos with Youths and Satyrs,” RD Milns Antiquities Museum Online Exhibitions, accessed April 26, 2024, https://uqantiquitiesonlineexhibitions.omeka.net/items/show/167.