Attic Red-Figure Column Krater Fragment (Main View, front (group shot 86.ae.208, 86.ae.210))

Part of same vase as 86.Ae.208. Dionysiac scene: Maenads flanking an image (xoanon) of Dionysos.

This fragment preserves the head, right shoulder, and part of the right arm of a maenad. She wears a chiton and has light-colored hair. Her head and hair are thrown back as if in a pose of Bacchic ecstasy.

The figural decoration is set in a panel framed by a tongue pattern on the shoulder below the junction with the neck, and a double row of black ivy leaves between black lines at the sides.
Interior of fragment: body, black; shoulder, plain.