Object 9 Flashcards
What is the object
Red figure stamnos (wine vessel)
Who is the artist
Dinos painter (trend setting painter who used white paint to stress details)
What is the date
Late fifth century BC
What is the location
Museo Nazionale Archeologico, Naples
What is the location
Portrayal of a Dionysiac ritual
What is a Thyrus
Staff with Ivy
What is a Maenad
“Frenzied one”
Followers of Dionysus- bacchant
What does the women’s hair being loose symbolise
How rules of society have even relaxed as loose hair wasn’t seen as appropriate
What is the figure on the left doing
Ladling wine from a holding vessel into a skyphos
What is the figure in the centre
A totem of Dionysus that is covered in ivy which is a symbol of him
What is on the table in the centre
Vases holding wine
Stomnoi
Dionysus is the god of wine
What is figure on the right doing
Holding a tambourine what is throwing her head back in religious ecstasy as she dances
