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    "localId": "154270",
    "label": "Red-Figure Ram-Head Rhyton (Drinking Vessel): Symposiasts; Satyr and Maenad",
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    "id": "154270",
    "contentType": "object",
    "title": "Red-Figure Ram-Head Rhyton (Drinking Vessel): Symposiasts; Satyr and Maenad",
    "description": "Although now missing nearly half of its mold-made ram’s head, this <em>rhyton</em>, a kind of drinking horn, retains most of its painted red-figure sections. On the wheel-made bowl above, three symposiasts recline at a drinking party: a youth wearing a <em>kidaris</em> (flapped Scythian hat) and two bearded men holding drinking cups. The youth plays the pipes, while a lyre hangs nearby and one man throws his head back in song. The letters around them, which do not spell out known words, may allude to the music in the air. Flanking the handle are a pipe-playing satyr and a dancing maenad (only partially preserved).",
    "date": "c. 480–470 BCE",
    "citation": "https://clevelandart.org/art/1988.8",
    "rights": "CC0",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "wikidata": [
        "Q60762501"
    ],
    "creators": [
        10760
    ],
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Ceramic"
    ],
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    "largeImageUrl": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1988.8/1988.8_web.jpg",
    "imageCount": 1,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensionsRaw": "Overall: 19 x 12.8 cm (7 1/2 x 5 1/16 in.); Diameter of rim: 11.4 cm (4 1/2 in.)",
    "cul": [
        "Greek, Attic"
    ],
    "accession": "1988.8"
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    "tec": "ceramic",
    "tombstone": "Red-Figure Ram-Head Rhyton (Drinking Vessel): Symposiasts; Satyr and Maenad, c. 480–470 BCE. Attributed to Brygos Painter (Greek, Attic, active c. 490–470 BCE). Ceramic; overall: 19 x 12.8 cm (7 1/2 x 5 1/16 in.); diameter of rim: 11.4 cm (4 1/2 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund, 1988.8",
    "collection": "GR - Greek",
    "didYouKnow": "This vessel once had a foot, but only a bit of its stem remains.",
    "citations": [
        {
            "citation": "Beazley Archive. n.d. <em>Beazley Archive Pottery Database</em>. Oxford: Beazley Archive.",
            "page_number": "BAPD 44593",
            "url": "http://www.beazley.ox.ac.uk/record/B085F2D4-8C2F-43F5-A29A-F02CECC2C531"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Guy, Robert. \"A Ram's Head Rhyton Signed by Charinos,\" <em>Arts in Virginia</em> 21.2 (1981): 2-15.",
            "page_number": "Reproduced figs. 9-11, Mentioned p. 5-6, 13 (n. 14)."
        },
        {
            "citation": "J. Paul Getty Museum. <em>Greek vases in the J. Paul Getty Museum. </em>Malibu, Calif: The Museum, 1983.",
            "page_number": "Mentioned p. 79, n. 33 and 82, n. 40"
        },
        {
            "citation": "\"The Year in Review for 1988.\" <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em> 76, no. 2 (1989): 30-75.",
            "page_number": "pp. 49, 68",
            "url": "http://www.jstor.org/stable/25160061"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Miller, Margaret. \"Foreigners at the Greek Symposium?\" in Slater, William J. <em>Dining in a Classical Context.</em> Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1991. p.59-81.",
            "page_number": "Mentioned p. 79, no. 6, reproduced fig. 9-10"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Miller, Margaret Christina. \"Adoption and Adaptation of Achaemenid Metalware Forms in Attic Black-Gloss Ware of the Fifth Century,\" <em>Archaeologische Mitteilungen aus Iran</em>. Band 26 (1993): 109-146.",
            "page_number": "See Tafel 25,2, with pp. 122-124."
        },
        {
            "citation": "Miller, Margaret Christina. <em>Athens and Persia in the Fifth Century B.C.: A Study in Cultural Receptivity</em>. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997.",
            "page_number": "Mentioned and reproduced p. 141-142, fig. 48."
        },
        {
            "citation": "Neils, Jenifer, and Gisela Walberg. <em>Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum: The Cleveland Museum of Art.</em> [Cleveland, OH]: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 2000.",
            "page_number": "pp. 23-24, PL.(1805) 59.1-7"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Neer, Richard T. <em>Style and Politics in Athenian Vase-Painting: The Craft of Democracy, Ca. 530-460 B.C.E. </em>New York: Cambridge University Press, 2002.",
            "page_number": "Mentioned and reproduced p. 21, fig. 3."
        },
        {
            "citation": "Topper, Kathryn. <em>The Imagery of the Athenian Symposium</em>. 2012. New York: Cambridge University Press.",
            "page_number": "Mentioned and reproduced p. 87, fig. 31."
        },
        {
            "citation": "Ramón Corzo Sánchez. \"The golden ram at the Bilbao Fine Arts Museum\", <em>Buletina = Boletín = Bulletin. </em>Bilbao : Bilboko Arte Ederren Museoa = Museo de Bellas Artes de Bilbao = Bilbao Fine Arts Museum, no. 7, 2013, pp. 15-47.",
            "page_number": "Reproduced fig. 13."
        },
        {
            "citation": "Hobden, Fiona.<em> The Symposion in Ancient Greek Society and Thought.</em> Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013.",
            "page_number": "Mentioned p. 82-83, reproduced fig. 7"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Filser, Wolfgang. <em>Die Elite Athens Auf Der Attischen Luxuskeramik.</em> Berlin: Walter de Gruyter GmbH, 2017.",
            "page_number": "Mentioned p. 215, reproduced fig. 83a-b"
        }
    ],
    "url": "https://clevelandart.org/art/1988.8",
    "creditline": "Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund",
    "updatedAt": "2026-05-29 07:58:43.280000",
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    "sourceId": 154270,
    "dept": "Greek and Roman Art",
    "coll": "GR - Greek",
    "med": "ceramic",
    "creatorTags": [
        "male"
    ],
    "thumbnail_url": null,
    "image_url": null
}

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