Cleveland Museum of Art

Red-Figure Ram-Head Rhyton (Drinking Vessel): Symposiasts; Satyr and Maenad

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Date: c. 480–470 BCE
Medium: ceramic
Culture: Greek, Attic
Department: Greek and Roman Art
Institution: Cleveland Museum of Art
Object ID: 154270

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Although now missing nearly half of its mold-made ram’s head, this rhyton , a kind of drinking horn, retains most of its painted red-figure sections. On the wheel-made bowl above, three symposiasts recline at a drinking party: a youth wearing a kidaris (flapped Scythian hat) and two bearded men holding drinking cups. The youth plays the pipes, while a lyre hangs nearby and one man throws his head back in song. The letters around them, which do not spell out known words, may allude to the music in the air. Flanking the handle are a pipe-playing satyr and a dancing maenad (only partially preserved). This vessel once had a foot, but only a bit of its stem remains.

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Credit line: Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund
Provenance: by 1978: Ariel Herrmann, New York, NY | ?-1988: (Acanthus Gallery, New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art) | 1988-: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH