South Italian Terracotta Bell Krater in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, January 2012

Terracotta bell-krater (mixing bowl)

Connected in style with the Painter of the Long Overfalls

Period:Late Classical

Date:ca. 380–360 B.C.

Culture:Greek, South Italian, Apulian

Medium:Terracotta; red-figure

Dimensions:H. 12 in. (30.5 cm)

Classification:Vases

Credit Line:Gift of David Nelson, in memory of Mark L. Davison, 1984

Accession Number:1984.323.2

Obverse, satyr and maenad. Reverse, two youths

The representation is interesting because the maenad, asleep in an outdoor setting, recalls the pose of Ariadne when she was found on the island of Naxos by the wine god Dionysos; she had been abandoned there by Theseus. The iconography of an "elevated" mythological subject has been applied to members of Dionysos' retinue.

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