Corinthian Plastic Vase - I
Crouching satyr holding a skyphos. The satyr's face is rendered in archaizing style with eyebrows, eyes, mustache and goatee painted in black; the hair locks hanging on the shoulders; the beard on the cheeks, the paws rendered in red. A nebride, goatskin worn by Dionysos' followers, covers his back. The animal's knotted legs are visible on the satyr chest.
On the skyphos shoulder superimposed garlands and spirals. The vase main body decoration shows two facing groups of riders leading horses.
This vessel is equipped with three openings that allow to drink the wine poured into it. They are placed at the satyr's head, at his back, and the last, communicating with the hollow interior of the annular base, at the bottom of the skyphos. This arrangement allowed to preserve the poured wine up to the rim of the vase or to drink it at will.
An inscription quite deeply incised on his right arm reads: ΡΟΙΟΔΟΝΟΣΕΙΜΙ (Ρολόδονός εἰμι). It reports the name of the vase owner who, according to the used characters, was a Boeotian.
Source :Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum: PARIS, MUSEE DU LOUVRE 8, III.
Corinthian black figure figure vase
Height: 20,5 cm; Length: 21 cm
Skyphos height: 9,2 cm; Diameter: 11,5 cm
1st quarter of the 6th century BC.
From Boeotia
Paris, Musée du Louvre, Museum - Inv. no. CA 454
Corinthian Plastic Vase - I
Crouching satyr holding a skyphos. The satyr's face is rendered in archaizing style with eyebrows, eyes, mustache and goatee painted in black; the hair locks hanging on the shoulders; the beard on the cheeks, the paws rendered in red. A nebride, goatskin worn by Dionysos' followers, covers his back. The animal's knotted legs are visible on the satyr chest.
On the skyphos shoulder superimposed garlands and spirals. The vase main body decoration shows two facing groups of riders leading horses.
This vessel is equipped with three openings that allow to drink the wine poured into it. They are placed at the satyr's head, at his back, and the last, communicating with the hollow interior of the annular base, at the bottom of the skyphos. This arrangement allowed to preserve the poured wine up to the rim of the vase or to drink it at will.
An inscription quite deeply incised on his right arm reads: ΡΟΙΟΔΟΝΟΣΕΙΜΙ (Ρολόδονός εἰμι). It reports the name of the vase owner who, according to the used characters, was a Boeotian.
Source :Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum: PARIS, MUSEE DU LOUVRE 8, III.
Corinthian black figure figure vase
Height: 20,5 cm; Length: 21 cm
Skyphos height: 9,2 cm; Diameter: 11,5 cm
1st quarter of the 6th century BC.
From Boeotia
Paris, Musée du Louvre, Museum - Inv. no. CA 454