Dionysos & Plutos with cornucopia on a couch, from the right side arriving drunken Hephaestos, led by a Satyr.
Dionysos & Plutos with cornucopia on a couch, from the right side arriving drunken Hephaestos, led by a Satyr.
[380-360]
Benevent Campanien - London BM F68
Side (b)
Dionysiac group:
In the centre is a couch covered with a panther's skin, on which recline the youthful *Dionysos* and *Pluto*, each resting left arm on an embroidered pillow. Dionysos has long curls, fillet with cross-band round the back of the head, ivy-wreath, drapery over lower limbs, and thyrsos in right hand; he turns to look at Pluto, who looks back at him; he has short curly hair with laurel-wreath, drapery over lower limbs, and in both hands a large rhyton, painted white, with egg-moulding round the top and a row of fruits above.
On the left stands a Maenad to right, above the ground-level, with flesh painted white, hair drawn back and tied round with a string, ivy-wreath, radiated ampyx, earrings, necklace, bracelets, long chiton and bordered himation falling in pteryges, hands extended, in left a dish of fruit.
On a lower level is a Satyr to right with ivy-wreath and fawn-skin over left arm, carrying a dish of fruit from which hang white strings, and behind him above is a female figure seated to left, looking round to right, with radiated ampyx, hair tied in a knot behind, bracelets, and long girt chiton drawn forward in left hand, in right a dish of fruit.
On the right a Satyr with ivy-wreath, and torch in right hand, leads up *Hephaestos* in a drunken condition; he is bearded, with fillet, ivy-wreath, chlamys over arms, axe in left hand, right arm resting on the Satyr's shoulder. Below the couch is *Eros* to right, nude, with beaded fillet and flesh painted white, holding a spring, the end of which is held in the beak of a swan with which he is playing; behind him is an ivy-branch; in the field, flowers, and above the scene, a vine with grapes.
Source: London BM F68
Dionysos & Plutos with cornucopia on a couch, from the right side arriving drunken Hephaestos, led by a Satyr.
Dionysos & Plutos with cornucopia on a couch, from the right side arriving drunken Hephaestos, led by a Satyr.
[380-360]
Benevent Campanien - London BM F68
Side (b)
Dionysiac group:
In the centre is a couch covered with a panther's skin, on which recline the youthful *Dionysos* and *Pluto*, each resting left arm on an embroidered pillow. Dionysos has long curls, fillet with cross-band round the back of the head, ivy-wreath, drapery over lower limbs, and thyrsos in right hand; he turns to look at Pluto, who looks back at him; he has short curly hair with laurel-wreath, drapery over lower limbs, and in both hands a large rhyton, painted white, with egg-moulding round the top and a row of fruits above.
On the left stands a Maenad to right, above the ground-level, with flesh painted white, hair drawn back and tied round with a string, ivy-wreath, radiated ampyx, earrings, necklace, bracelets, long chiton and bordered himation falling in pteryges, hands extended, in left a dish of fruit.
On a lower level is a Satyr to right with ivy-wreath and fawn-skin over left arm, carrying a dish of fruit from which hang white strings, and behind him above is a female figure seated to left, looking round to right, with radiated ampyx, hair tied in a knot behind, bracelets, and long girt chiton drawn forward in left hand, in right a dish of fruit.
On the right a Satyr with ivy-wreath, and torch in right hand, leads up *Hephaestos* in a drunken condition; he is bearded, with fillet, ivy-wreath, chlamys over arms, axe in left hand, right arm resting on the Satyr's shoulder. Below the couch is *Eros* to right, nude, with beaded fillet and flesh painted white, holding a spring, the end of which is held in the beak of a swan with which he is playing; behind him is an ivy-branch; in the field, flowers, and above the scene, a vine with grapes.
Source: London BM F68