hildegardavon:Dionysos and two Maenads Bucket (situla) Greek, South Italian: Apulia, Late Classical
hildegardavon:Dionysos and two Maenads Bucket (situla) Greek, South Italian: Apulia, Late Classical Period ca.350/340 B.C., Red Figure, 28,1 cmMuseum of Fine Arts, Boston Inv. 1992.317Dionysos is seated on a rock or outcropping suggested by a row of white dots; similar dots indicate the terrain throughout this scene and the one on the reverse. Two maenads stand on either side of the god, while at the right a nude satyr has fallen asleep against a marble louterion. Dionysos is seated to the right but turns to look at the maenad at the left, who holds a phiale in her left hand and a pair of yellow and white fillets in her right. -- source link
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