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Used for mixing wine and water at a symposium (drinking party), this vase bears images of <em>komasts</em>, or revelers, potentially mirroring the actions of its users. The three bearded men on side A stand out for their earrings, long drapery, and Eastern-style headdresses, and for the parasol held by one. Similar features have been noticed on numerous other red-figure vases, now called “Anakreontic” by scholars. This name refers to Anakreon, a 6th-century BC lyric poet from East Greece sometimes credited with inventing the <em>barbitos</em>, the long-stringed lyre played by the central figure on side A. The youths on side B, one draped, two nude and dancing, are less unusual.
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108878
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Red-Figure Column Krater (Mixing Vessel): Komos (Revel)
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108878
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Red-Figure Column Krater (Mixing Vessel): Komos (Revel)
description
Used for mixing wine and water at a symposium (drinking party), this vase bears images of <em>komasts</em>, or revelers, potentially mirroring the actions of its users. The three bearded men on side A stand out for their earrings, long drapery, and Eastern-style headdresses, and for the parasol held by one. Similar features have been noticed on numerous other red-figure vases, now called “Anakreontic” by scholars. This name refers to Anakreon, a 6th-century BC lyric poet from East Greece sometimes credited with inventing the <em>barbitos</em>, the long-stringed lyre played by the central figure on side A. The youths on side B, one draped, two nude and dancing, are less unusual.
date
c. 470–460 BCE
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CC0
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CC0
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en
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Q60745863
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10960
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Ceramic
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Diameter: 40.6 cm (16 in.); Overall: 42.5 cm (16 3/4 in.)
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Greek, Attic
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1926.549
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Red-Figure Column Krater (Mixing Vessel): Komos (Revel), c. 470–460 BCE. Attributed to Pig Painter (Greek, Attic, active c. 480–460 BCE). Ceramic; diameter: 40.6 cm (16 in.); overall: 42.5 cm (16 3/4 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, The A. W. Ellenberger, Sr., Endowment Fund, 1926.549
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GR - Greek
didYouKnow
These three bearded men wear earrings and Eastern-style headdresses—unusual features in fifth-century BC Athens.
citations
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Beazley Archive. n.d. <em>Beazley Archive Pottery Database</em>. Oxford: Beazley Archive.
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BAPD 206434
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The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1928.
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Reproduced: p. 74
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Beazley, J. D. <em>Attic Red-Figure Vase-Painters, </em>First Edition. Oxford: The Clarendon Press, 1942.
page_number
P. 379, no. 30 (Agrigento Painter).
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Beazley, J. D. <em>Attic Red-Figure Vase-Painters</em>. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1963.
page_number
p. 563, No. 9
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p. 16, Plates 25-26
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Burn, Lucilla, Ruth Glynn, and J. D. <em>Beazley. Beazley Addenda: Additional References to ABV, ARV² & Paralipomena.</em> Oxford [Oxfordshire]: Published for the British Academy by Oxford University Press, 1982.
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p. 127
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J. Paul Getty Museum. <em>Greek vases in the J. Paul Getty Museum.</em> Malibu, Calif: The Museum, 1983.
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p. 62, Fig. 25
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Bérard, Claude, Christiane Bron, and Alessandra Pomari. <em>Images Et Société En Grèce Ancienne: L'iconographie Comme Méthode D'analyse : Actes Du Colloque International, Lausanne 8-11 Février 1984.</em> [Lausanne]: Institut d'archéologie et d'histoire ancienne, Université de Lausanne, 1987.
page_number
p. 107, Fig.10
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Carpenter, Thomas H., J. D. Beazley, Thomas Mannack, Melanie Mendonça, and Lucilla Burn. <em>Beazley Addenda: Additional References to ABV, ARV² & Paralipomena. </em>Oxford: Published for the British Academy by Oxford University Press, 1989.
page_number
p. 260
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page_number
p. 135, Fig. 13
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Lissarrague, F. <em>The aesthetics of the Greek banquet: images of wine and ritual</em>. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1990.
page_number
p. 12, fig. 2
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Driscoll, Ann. "The Pig Painter: Parties, Poets, and Pollaiuolo." <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em> 80, no. 3 (1993): 83-111.
page_number
Reproduced: p. 89-90, 101; Mentioned: p. 83-111
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Delavaud-Roux, Marie-Hélène. "L'Énigme Des Danseurs Barbus au Parasol et Les Vases « Des Leneennes »." <em>Revue Archéologique</em>, no. 2 (1995)
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p. 234, fig. 10
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Zanker, Paul.<em> Die Maske des Sokrates: Das Bild des Intellektuellen in der antiken Kunst.</em> München: C.H. Beck, 1995.
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p. 32, Fig. 13
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Boardman, John. <em>The History of Greek Vases: Potters, Painters, and Pictures.</em> New York, N.Y.: Thames & Hudson, 2001.
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p. 222, Fig. 240
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Martin-Gropius-Bau (Berlin, Germany), Kunst- und Ausstellungshalle der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, and Staatliche Museen Preussischer Kulturbesitz. <em>Die griechische Klassik: Idee oder Wirklichkeit</em> : eine Ausstellung im Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin, 1. März - 2. Juni 2002 und in der Kunst- und Ausstellungshalle der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, Bonn, 5. Juli - 6. Oktober 2002 [i.e. 12. Juli - 13. Oktober 2002]. Mainz: Zabern, 2002.
page_number
cat. no. 171, p. 282
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Bundrick, Sheramy D. <em>Music and Image in Classical Athens. </em>Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005.
page_number
p. 86, Fig. 53
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p. 13
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Bierl, Anton, Nils Büttner, Kordelia Knoll, Bernhard Maaz, Sebastian Oesinghaus, Ernst Osterkamp, Michael Philipp, Stephan F. Schröder, and Saskia Wetzig. <em>Dionysos: Rausch und Ekstase</em>. 2013.
page_number
p. 29, fig. 5
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Heinemann, Alexander. <em>Der Gott des Gelages: Dionysos, Satyrn und Mänaden auf attischem Trinkgeschirr des 5. Jahrhunderts v. Chr. </em>Berlin: De Gruyter, 2016.
page_number
p. 89, Fig. 35
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Petrakova, Anna. “A Youth in a Bonnet in Attic Red-Figure: New Case – New Sense?” In <em>Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum, Österreich, Beiheft 3: Griechische Vasen Als Medium Für Kommunikation. Ausgewählte Aspekte. Akten Des Internationalen Symposiums Im Kunsthistorischen Museum Wien, 5.–7. Oktober 2017</em>, edited by Claudia Lang-Auinger and Elisabeth Trinkl, NED-New edition, 1., 133–46. Austrian Academy of Sciences Press, 2021.
page_number
Mentioned and reproduced p. 138, Fig. 5
creditline
The A. W. Ellenberger, Sr., Endowment Fund
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