Single-Handle Plastic Kantharos,
The plastic vase shaped like a satyr's head is a production attested in Athens during the 5th century BC. The vase, although traditionally defined as a single handle kantharos, cannot perform the ttypical function of this kind of vases used for the ritual consumption of the wine in honor of the god Dionysus: the shape of the mouth associated with a single handle doesn't prove suitable neither for drinking nor for pouring, depriving this vase of any practical application. Unlike the rhyton, the foot makes it stand-alone, allowing a frontal vision (satyr mask and figurative scene with satyr and maenad) which determines an evocative presence of the Dionysian ritual in an ideal symposium of the deceased.
Source: MAN di Napoli, “La Collezione Magna Grecia” - Electa
Attic configured vase
Height: 23,2 cm.; Mouth diam.: 15 cm.
450 – 420 BC
From Ruvo [?], Bari
Napoli, Museo Archeologico Nazionale, Inv. 81768.
Single-Handle Plastic Kantharos,
The plastic vase shaped like a satyr's head is a production attested in Athens during the 5th century BC. The vase, although traditionally defined as a single handle kantharos, cannot perform the ttypical function of this kind of vases used for the ritual consumption of the wine in honor of the god Dionysus: the shape of the mouth associated with a single handle doesn't prove suitable neither for drinking nor for pouring, depriving this vase of any practical application. Unlike the rhyton, the foot makes it stand-alone, allowing a frontal vision (satyr mask and figurative scene with satyr and maenad) which determines an evocative presence of the Dionysian ritual in an ideal symposium of the deceased.
Source: MAN di Napoli, “La Collezione Magna Grecia” - Electa
Attic configured vase
Height: 23,2 cm.; Mouth diam.: 15 cm.
450 – 420 BC
From Ruvo [?], Bari
Napoli, Museo Archeologico Nazionale, Inv. 81768.