Fragment of a bowl (centaur at the symposium), clay, quickly turned, painted (ceramic), alternately fired, clay, total: height: 5.4 cm; width: 9.1 cm, ceramic, centaurs, drinking, ritual meal, banquet, banquet, feast, strict style, Greek antiquity, It is not always possible - especially with incompletely preserved pictures - to identify the object beyond doubt, as the fragment of this bowl illustrates. On the left is depicted a woman sitting on a chair (Greek klismós) in a long robe, wrapped in her coat and veiled like a bride. She is sitting in front of a binge bed (Greek kline), on which a centaur has made herself comfortable. The large horse body has been preserved. The front-hooves are angled, the hind legs slightly to the back. The centaur rests on a cushion decorated with dots and a diamond pattern in the posture usual at the symposium. In front of the kline is a side table with some food. In the absence of further details, two myths come into consideration here: it could be the wedding celebration of the Lapith king Peirithoos with Hippodameia, to which the Thessalian centaur Eurytion was invited. When he was drunk and tried to do violence to the bride during the ceremony, the Lapithes cut off his nose and ears and dragged him to the door where the other centaurs found him. A fight between lapiths and centaurs, the so-called centauromachie, ensued. With the support of Theseus, who was present as a guest, the lapiths managed to gain the upper hand. In another story, the Arcadian centaur Eurytion tried to force King Dexamenos of Elis to give him his daughter as wife. But Heracles stepped in and killed Eurytion before the wedding took place. Possibly the fragment depicts the celebration in which we can add King Dexamenos and Heracles on the right.

Fragment of a bowl (centaur at the symposium), clay, quickly turned, painted (ceramic), alternately fired, clay, total: height: 5.4 cm; width: 9.1 cm, ceramic, centaurs, drinking, ritual meal, banquet, banquet, feast, strict style, Greek antiquity, It is not always possible - especially with incompletely preserved pictures - to identify the object beyond doubt, as the fragment of this bowl illustrates. On the left is depicted a woman sitting on a chair (Greek klismós) in a long robe, wrapped in her coat and veiled like a bride. She is sitting in front of a binge bed (Greek kline), on which a centaur has made herself comfortable. The large horse body has been preserved. The front-hooves are angled, the hind legs slightly to the back. The centaur rests on a cushion decorated with dots and a diamond pattern in the posture usual at the symposium. In front of the kline is a side table with some food. In the absence of further details, two myths come into consideration here: it could be the wedding celebration of the Lapith king Peirithoos with Hippodameia, to which the Thessalian centaur Eurytion was invited. When he was drunk and tried to do violence to the bride during the ceremony, the Lapithes cut off his nose and ears and dragged him to the door where the other centaurs found him. A fight between lapiths and centaurs, the so-called centauromachie, ensued. With the support of Theseus, who was present as a guest, the lapiths managed to gain the upper hand. In another story, the Arcadian centaur Eurytion tried to force King Dexamenos of Elis to give him his daughter as wife. But Heracles stepped in and killed Eurytion before the wedding took place. Possibly the fragment depicts the celebration in which we can add King Dexamenos and Heracles on the right.

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