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Detail of a Terracotta Stamnos Attributed to the Group of Polygnotos in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, May 2015

Detail of a Terracotta Stamnos Attributed to the Group of Polygnotos in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, May 2015
Terracotta stamnos (jar)

Attributed to a Painter in the Group of Polygnotos

Period: Classical

Date: ca. 440 B.C.

Culture: Greek, Attic

Medium: Terracotta; red-figure

Dimensions: H. 15 11/16 in. (39.9 cm); diameter of mouth 9 5/16 in. (23.6 cm); diameter of foot 5 3/8 in. (13.7 cm)

Classification: Vases

Credit Line: Fletcher Fund, 1956

Accession Number: 56.171.52


Obverse, Dionysos, the god of wine, on donkey with two satyrs (his male followers)
Reverse, two maenads (female followers of Dionysos) and young satyr

Text from: www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/254911

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