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Attic Black-Figure Cup Fragment

Date

about 540–530 B.C.

Medium

Terracotta

Culture

Greek (Attic)

Department

Vessels

Institution

Getty Museum

The fragment (composed of twelve joining fragments) preserves half of the deep bowl of a cup of type A or similar. Interior: small reserved tondo with the sickle and tail feathers of a cock to right. Exterior: side A. Dionysos faces a woman (Ariadne), surrounded by satyrs and maenads, of whom only the trio behind Dionysos is preserved. Ariadne stands at the right edge of the fragment, wearing a peplos and himation. She holds the himation open with her right hand and drawn over her head. Dionysos faces her, wearing a long chiton and himation, and holding a drinking horn in his right hand. A maenad and two satyrs approach from the left. The maenad is dressed in a chiton and nebris (deerskin). Exterior: side B. A trio of satyrs and a maeand is preserved. At left, a satyr moving to right, and a maenad and satyr to left. The maenad has a fillet in her hair, wears a necklace, and is dressed in a chiton and nebris. The edge of the lip is black, with a fine reserved line on the exterior, and a thin black line at the top of the figured zone. There are traces of one of the handle roots, as well as the tips of a large hanging lotus bud with separate sepals under the handle. The figures stand on three dilute lines. Below, a broad band, three dilute bands, a zone of thin rays, and a glaze line. The interior of the bowl is black except for the tondo. Adapted from Clark, A., CVA Malibu 2 (1990)

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