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White-ground Kyathos, Girls and Phallus-Bird

Unknownca. 510 BC

Altes Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin

Altes Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Berlin, Germany

Most of the vessels exhibited here were produced in Athens, exported to Italy and served as tableware during the symposium, the banquet. The pictures on the drinking cups, beakers and wine-mixing vessels show both mythical creatures from the circle around Dionysus – satyrs,maenads, nymphs – and the humans using these vessels during the symposium: Men of various ages and hetaerae, professional ‘ladies of pleasure’. Homo- and heterosexual activities are to be seen in almost equal measure; both were depicted particularly drastically around 500 BC. In reality, strict social norms applied.

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  • Title: White-ground Kyathos, Girls and Phallus-Bird
  • Creator: Unknown
  • Date Created: ca. 510 BC
  • Medium: Clay
  • Inv.-No.: F 2095
  • ISIL-No.: DE-MUS-814319
  • External link: Altes Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
  • Copyrights: Text: © Antikensammlung, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin || Photo: © b p k - || Photo Agency / Antikensammlung, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin / Johannes Laurentius
  • Collection: Antikensammlung, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin - Preußischer Kulturbesitz
Altes Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin

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