Terracotta hydria: kalpis (water jar)

Terracotta hydria: kalpis (water jar)

Terracotta hydria: kalpis (water jar). Culture: Greek, Attic. Dimensions: H. 12 in. (30.5 cm). Date: 4th century B.C.. Woman seated by an altar and thymiaterion (incense burner) being crowned by Eros, satyr and woman with tympanon (tambourine), and woman Set outdoors, this scene shows a woman burning incense and a satyr with a woman, who may be a maenad. The woman at the right runs away in fright. The powers of Dionysos and Eros are evidently at work.

Terracotta; red-figure

LATE CLASSICAL

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA

Album / Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY

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4200 x 4200 px | 50.5 MB

35.6 x 35.6 cm | 14.0 x 14.0 in (300 dpi)