Attic Red-Figure Skyphos
Penthesilea Painterabout 450 B.C.
The J. Paul Getty Museum
Los Angeles, United States
Red-figure skyphos. Repainted?
There is a band of broken meander, running to right with cross- squares at irregular intervals. Palmette complex beneath handles
A) Column; wreathed satyr walking to right, playing double pipes. Dionysos (bearded, long-haired, wreathed, with thyrsus and branch in his left hand, kantharos in his right) walking to right, looking back.
B) Dancing satyr moving to right, wreathed, carrying a wine skin. Infant satyr dancing to right, nude, with a thyrsus. Maenad, dancing, facing left, wreathed, with thyrsus.
The foot is unpainted underneath except for inner surface of foot and two small concentric circles at centre, surround by two larger ones.
- Title: Attic Red-Figure Skyphos
- Creator: Penthesilea Painter
- Date Created: about 450 B.C.
- Location Created: Athens, Greece
- Physical Dimensions: 17 × 30 × 20.2 cm (6 11/16 × 11 13/16 × 7 15/16 in.)
- Type: Skyphos
- External Link: Find out more about this object on the Museum website.
- Medium: Terracotta
- Terms of Use: Open Content
- Number: 75.AE.82
- Culture: Greek (Attic)
- Credit Line: The J. Paul Getty Museum, Villa Collection, Malibu, California, Gift of Seymour Weintraub
- Creator Display Name: Workshop of Penthesilea Painter (Greek (Attic))
- Classification: Vessels (Containers)
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