Lekythos with Youths and Satyrs
Dublin Core
Title
Lekythos with Youths and Satyrs
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
Athens, Greece
Format
Firing
Incising
Throwing
Identifier
18.001
Date Accepted
490 BCE
Extent
17 cm
Medium
Terracotta
Provenance
Purchased from ArtAncient, London, with funds donated to the Alumni Friends of The University of Queensland by Dr Stephen Papas, Brisbane, 2017.
Files
Citation
Athens, Greece, “Lekythos with Youths and Satyrs,” RD Milns Antiquities Museum Online Exhibitions, accessed May 17, 2024, https://uqantiquitiesonlineexhibitions.omeka.net/items/show/402.