Grotesque
A flute-player to left with puffed-out cheeks, wearing a beaded fillet and himation; in front of him, two grotesque nude figures to left, dancing, the first slightly bearded, holding up a tympanon (?), the other beardless, with a wreath in his hand.
Black-figured skyphos;
Attributed to “The Mystes Painter”;
Made in Boeotia
From Thebes, Boeotia
Around 450-420 BC.
London, The British Museum
Grotesque
A flute-player to left with puffed-out cheeks, wearing a beaded fillet and himation; in front of him, two grotesque nude figures to left, dancing, the first slightly bearded, holding up a tympanon (?), the other beardless, with a wreath in his hand.
Black-figured skyphos;
Attributed to “The Mystes Painter”;
Made in Boeotia
From Thebes, Boeotia
Around 450-420 BC.
London, The British Museum