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Fragmentary Attic Red-Figure Kylix

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The Briseis Painter decorated painted pottery using the red-figure technique in Athens during the period of about 490 to 470 B.C. As with most Greek vase-painters, his real name is unknown, and he is identified only by the stylistic traits of his work. The Briseis Painter takes his name from a vase now in London that depicts a moment from the legend of the Trojan War: Agamemnon taking the slave gi

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Date: about 480 B.C.
Medium: Terracotta
Culture: Greek (Attic)
Department: Vessels
Institution: Getty Museum

Interior: A meander border surrounds a single maenad, running to left. Looking back, she holds a snake in her right hand and a thyrsos in her left. She wears a patterned sakkos on her head. Exterior: A: Two satyrs and a maenad. At left, a satyr wearing a wreath and holding a wineskin extends his left arm to hold the maenad's shoulder. She dances, with her right arm extended back towards the satyr. She holds a thyrsos around which a snake is entwined. At right, a second satyr rushes towards a rocky outcrop, holding out a wineskin as he looks back. Exterior: B: the left part of the scene is heavily misfired. At left, a satyr walks to the right, following a maenad who wields a thyrsos and a snake. Further to right, a second satyr, with a wineskin and drinking horn (keras). His mouth is open as though singing. The foot and scattered fragments of the bowl are missing, and one handle does not join any preserved edge on the cup. The surface has suffered considerable damage. Lacunae have been filled during reconstruction. 76.AE.131.7 was incorporated.

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