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Dipping Cup (Kyathos) with Dionysus and a Satyr

Dipping Cup (Kyathos) with Dionysus and a Satyr

Nikosthenic Workshop, Circle of Psiax

The kyathos is a dipper with a vertical handle used to ladle out wine. Between the eyes that ward off evil, Dionysos lies on a pallet, attended by maenad from the right and a satyr from the left.
Artist
Nikosthenic Workshop, Circle of Psiax
(Greek, Attic)
Title
Dipping Cup (Kyathos) with Dionysus and a Satyr
Date
ca. 515 B.C.E.
Medium
Earthenware with black-figure decoration
Dimensions
5 3/4 x 4 1/2 in. overall
Credit
Gift of Dr. Warren E. Gilson
Accession No.
1986.50
Classification
Ceramics
Geography
Greece

Related

Before 1976, collection of Lincoln Higgie (Chicago); by 1976, purchased from Lincoln Higgie by Dr. Warren E. Gilson (Middleton, WI); December 1976, deposited on long-term loan to the Elvehjem Art Center [now called Chazen Museum of Art]; December 1986, gifted to the Elvehjem Museum of Art [now called Chazen Museum of Art]

  • Elvehjem Museum of Art. "Ancient Etruscan and Greek Vases in the Elvehjem Museum of Art." University of Wisconsin Regents. Madison, Wis., 2000. p. 53, no. 33
  • Moon, Warren G, and Louise Berge. "Greek Vase-painting In Midwestern Collections." Chicago: The Art Institute, 1979.
  • M.M. Eisman, "Attic Kyathos Production." Archaeology 28 (1975): 76-83. pp. 76-83
  • Elvehjem Museum of Art. "Elvehjem Museum of Art Bulletin/Annual Report 1986-1987." Elvehjem Museum of Art, 1988. p. 74

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