Image: Brygos Painter ARV 385 228 Alkaios and Sappho - Dionysos and maenad (08)
Description: object type / vase shape: attic red figure krater with spout at the bottom, in the shape of a kalathos (basket for wool) - description: side A: the poet Alkaios playing the barbitos, singing (ooo), the poetess Sappho (face in three-quarter-view) holding her barbitos, looking towards Alkaios; inscriptions: ALKAIOS, SAFO, DAMA KALOS - exterior side B: Dionysos holding kantharos and branches, maenad or Ariadne with oinochoe and branches; inscriptions: KALOS KALOS - production place: Athens - painter: Brygos Painter (very late work) - period / date: early classical, ca. 470 BC - material: pottery (clay) - height: 52,5 cm - findspot: Agrigento - museum / inventory number: München, Staatliche Antikensammlungen 2416 - bibliography: John D. Beazley, Attic Red-Figure Vase-Painters, Oxford 1963(2), 385, 228 - Please note: The above museum permits photography of its exhibits for private, educational, scientific, non-commercial purposes. If you intend to use the photo for any commercial aime, please contact the museum and ask for permission.
Title: Brygos Painter ARV 385 228 Alkaios and Sappho - Dionysos and maenad (08)
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