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accession number: 1988.8
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Red-Figure Ram-Head Rhyton (Drinking Vessel): Symposiasts; Satyr and Maenad, c. 480–470 BC. Attributed to Brygos Painter (Greek, Attic, active c. 490–470 BC). Ceramic; overall: 19 x 12.8 cm (7 1/2 x 5 1/16 in.); diameter of rim: 11.4 cm (4 1/2 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund 1988.8
title: Red-Figure Ram-Head Rhyton (Drinking Vessel): Symposiasts; Satyr and Maenad
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creation date: c. 480–470 BC
creation date earliest: -485
creation date latest: -465
current location: 102B Greek
creditline: Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund
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culture: Greek, Attic
technique: ceramic
department: Greek and Roman Art
collection: GR - Greek
type: Ceramic
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CREATORS
* Brygos Painter (Greek, Attic, active c. 490–470 BC) - artist
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measurements: Overall: 19 x 12.8 cm (7 1/2 x 5 1/16 in.); Diameter of rim: 11.4 cm (4 1/2 in.)
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS
title: The Year in Review for 1988
opening date: 1989-03-01T05:00:00
The Year in Review for 1988. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (March 1-May 14, 1989).
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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS
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PROVENANCE
Ariel Herrmann, New York, NY
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(Acanthus Gallery, New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)
date: ?-1988
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The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
date: 1988-
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fun fact:
This vessel once had a foot, but only a bit of its stem remains.
digital description:
Although now missing nearly half of its mold-made ram’s head, this rhyton, a kind of drinking horn, retains most of its painted red-figure sections. On the wheel-made bowl above, three symposiasts recline at a drinking party: a youth wearing a kidaris (flapped Scythian hat) and two bearded men holding drinking cups. The youth plays the pipes, while a lyre hangs nearby and one man throws his head back in song. The letters around them, which do not spell out known words, may allude to the music in the air. Flanking the handle are a pipe-playing satyr and a dancing maenad (only partially preserved).
wall description:
On the bowl three men recline at a drinking party (or symposium): a youth wearing a kidaris (a flapped Scythian hat) plays double pipes as a lyre hangs on the wall behind him; a bearded man holds a kylix in his extended right hand; and another bearded man holds a large skyphos to his chest. Before the heads of each symposiast is an identical nonsense inscription. Flanking the handle in the zone to the left, a satyr plays double pipes; in the zone to the right a maenad dances.
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RELATED WORKS
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CITATIONS
Beazley Archive. n.d. Beazley Archive Pottery Database. Oxford: Beazley Archive.
page number: BAPD 44593
url: http://www.beazley.ox.ac.uk/record/B085F2D4-8C2F-43F5-A29A-F02CECC2C531
Guy, Robert. "A Ram's Head Rhyton Signed by Charinos," Arts in Virginia 21.2 (1981): 2-15.
page number: See figs. 9-11, pp. 5-6, 13 (n. 14).
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Slater, William J. Dining in a Classical Context. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1991.
page number: p. 79, no. 6, fig. 9-10
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J. Paul Getty Museum. Greek vases in the J. Paul Getty Museum. Malibu, Calif: The Museum, 1983.
page number: p. 79, n. 33 and 82, n. 40
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Boulter, C. G., and Kurt T. Luckner. Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum. Toledo: Toledo Museum of Art, 1984.
page number: pp. 20, 5
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"The Year in Review for 1988." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 76, no. 2 (1989): 30-75.
page number: pp. 49, 68
url: http://www.jstor.org/stable/25160061
Miller, Margaret Christina. "Adoption and Adaptation of Achaemenid Metalware Forms in Attic Black-Gloss Ware of the Fifth Century," Archaeologische Mitteilungen aus Iran. Band 26 (1993): 109-146.
page number: See Tafel 25,2, with pp. 122-124.
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Miller, Margaret Christina. Athens and Persia in the Fifth Century B.C.: A Study in Cultural Receptivity. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997.
page number: pp. 141-142, fig. 48.
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Neils, Jenifer, and Gisela Walberg. Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum: The Cleveland Museum of Art. [Cleveland, OH]: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 2000.
page number: pp. 23-24, PL.(1805) 59.1-7
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Neer, Richard T. Style and Politics in Athenian Vase-Painting: The Craft of Democracy, Ca. 530-460 B.C.E. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2002.
page number: p. 21, fig. 3.
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Topper, Kathryn. The Imagery of the Athenian Symposium. 2012. New York: Cambridge University Press.
page number: p. 87, fig. 31.
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Sumption, Merle R., and Jack Lyle Landes. Planning Functional School Buildings. New York: Harper, 1957.
page number: p. 87, fig. 31
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Ramón Corzo Sánchez. "The golden ram at the Bilbao Fine Arts Museum", Buletina = Boletín = Bulletin. Bilbao : Bilboko Arte Ederren Museoa = Museo de Bellas Artes de Bilbao = Bilbao Fine Arts Museum, no. 7, 2013, pp. 15-47.
page number: CMA vase in fig. 13.
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