Courtesy of the trustees of the british museum psykter a wine cooler used in ancient greece.
Reveling satyrs attic psykter.
Greek psykter depicting reveling satyrs reveling satyrs attic red figure psykter wine cooler signed by douris c.
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Greek psykter depicting reveling satyrs reveling satyrs attic red figure psykter wine cooler signed by douris c.
Revels of bearded satyrs.
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Psykter was a wine cooler with a broad bulbous body a tall cylindrical stem and a short neck.
In the british museum london.
This picture is of one of the greek gods.
He moves to left looking back with caduceus inverted in his left hand and holding up.
The central figure appears to be that of a bearded satyr dressed as a herald in chlamys thracian with heavy horizontal patterns petasos at back and high endromides with flaps turned over of skin.
An attic black figure psykter circa 490 480 b c.
Smikros 33 25 5 cm 13 10 1 16 in 82 ae 53.
Reverse dionysos among satyrs and maenads the symposium conventionally interpreted as a drinking party was a well established feature of greek particularly athenian society.
Reveling satyrs attic red figure psykter wine cooler signed by douris c.
Attic black figure psykter c.
Courtesy of the trustees of the british museum the red figure style in pottery was appeared around 530 b c.
Leagros the satyr in clemente marconi ed greek vases.
Reveling satyrs attic psykter wine cooler in the red figure style signed by douris c.
Courtesy of the trustees of the british museum.
Silenus although bibulous like the satyrs in the satyr plays also appeared in legend as a dispenser of homely wisdom.
Later ones had two small loops on shoulders for carrying and a lid that fits over the psykter s mouth.
He is seated above them to.
Earlier psykters had no handles.
Reveling satyrs attic psykter wine cooler in the red figure style signed by douris c.
The body decorated with a frieze depicting a dionysiac scene of dancing figures including four male satyr revelers and three draped maenads the satyrs nude with himatia draped at their shoulders one holding up a wine cup one bearded one wearing a leafy wreath all with pointed ears and holding staffs the women wearing chitons with himatia.
For over a century representations on vases document that wine women and song were central ingredients.
This is a painting of the a greek god and his family.
In the british museum london.