MAKE A MEME View Large Image Meleager Painter - Type B Kylix Depicting Maenad and Satyr and Women and Athletes - Walters 4892 - Side A Detail.jpg This red-figure kylix depicts a maenad and a satyr in the tondo On the left a maenad sits on a rock to the left looking ...
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Keywords: Meleager Painter - Type B Kylix Depicting Maenad and Satyr and Women and Athletes - Walters 4892 - Side A Detail.jpg This red-figure kylix depicts a maenad and a satyr in the tondo On the left a maenad sits on a rock to the left looking around Her left arm is by her side while the right is bent up in front She wears a necklace peplos diadem and earring On the right a wreathed satyr leans to the left; his left hand grasps her upper left arm his right is wrapped around her back On the sides are depicted a woman and two athletes In the center a woman stands frontally looking left holding out a necklace with both hands She wears a peplos and her hair is held by ribbons On either side an athlete stands in profile facing inward On the front each holds a strigil in his right hand and on the back the left one holds a strigil while the one on the right holds out his right arm at waist level palm up All four stand with one leg stiff the other bent and placed back The three whose heads are fully preserved wear fillets early 4th century BC Classical terracotta H with handles 4 x Diam with handles 13 1/8 in 10 2 x 33 4 cm ; Diam at mouth cm 25 2 ; Diam at foot cm 11 2 accession number 48 92 12435 Don Marcello Massarenti Collection Rome 1897 cat no 197 Henry Walters city Baltimore Walters Art Museum Henry Walters Acquired by Henry Walters with the Massarenti Collection 1902 place of origin Attica Greece Walters Art Museum license Ancient Greek red-figure pottery in the Walters Art Museum Meleager Painter Athletes in ancient Greek pottery Strigils Media contributed by the Walters Art Museum needs artist update
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