Acquisition number: 1965.33
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Bull-Head Kantharos-Rhyton.
Missing are the tips of the horns and a fragment of the lip from B. The handles have a concave outer face.
On the lip, A: a maenad dancing left, a tambourine in her left hand. To either side are summary tendrils, and there is a band of egg and dot at the rim above. B: a maenad moving left with a thyrsos in her right hand and a dish in her left. The fragment which included her head is missing (note that the patternwork above is restored). To the left is a tendril like those on A.
The lower part of the vessel is in the form of a bull’s head with fairly carefully modelled details: note the wrinkles above the eyes and the curls of hair between the horns.
Title: Bull-Head Kantharos-Rhyton - 1965.33
Acquisition number: 1965.33
Attribution: School of the Painter of Athens, 1714.
Culture or period: West Greek.
Date: Mid 4th century BC.
Material: Clay - Terracotta
Object type: Rhyton
Dimensions: 114mm (w) × 215mm (h)
Origin region or location: Italy
Origin city: Altamura.
Display case or on loan: 8
Keywords: Apulian, Red Figure, Apulian Tomb Group, Maenad, Painter of Athens
J.R. Green with B. Rawson, Catalogue of Antiquities in the Australian National University, A.N.U. (Canberra, 1981) 61.
1965.33
Bull-Head Kantharos-Rhyton.
Ht 21.5cm; diam. (lip) 11.4cm.
Missing are the tips of the horns and a fragment of the lip from B. The handles have a concave outer face.
On the lip, A: a maenad dancing left, a tambourine in her left hand. To either side are summary tendrils, and there is a band of egg and dot at the rim above. B: a maenad moving left with a thyrsos in her right hand and a dish in her left. The fragment which included her head is missing (note that the patternwork above is restored). To the left is a tendril like those on A.
The lower part of the vessel is in the form of a bull’s head with fairly carefully modelled details: note the wrinkles above the eyes and the curls of hair between the horns. The vase is close in style of both shape and decoration to another bull-head rhyton, Ruvo 1405, H. Hoffmann, Tarentine Rhyta (Mainz 1966) 16 no. 42, pl. 8. It belongs to Hoffmann’s Coroplast Alpha in his Early Group. For the painting compare especially the treatment of the drapery on side B here with that on the reverse of the Ruvo vase. Trendall attributed the painting to the School of the Painter of Athens 1714, like the squat lekythos 1965.22 in this catalogue. Soon after the middle of the fourth century BC.
J.R. Green with B. Rawson, Catalogue of Antiquities in the Australian National University, A.N.U. (Canberra, 1981) 61.
Australian National University.