#komasts

[thecrankyprofessor]

See the signature! "Hiero made"

Interior, flute-playing satyr and maenad

Exterior, obverse and reverse, symposium

Attic, c 480. Met 20.246. H. 5 7/16 in. (13.8 cm); diameter 13 1/16 in. (33.2 cm). Signed Hieron as potter, painting attributed to Makron.

The Met says: The exterior provides a particularly full illustration of the symposium (drinking party) and, especially, of its paraphernalia: a wreathed column-krater for mixing wine and water, a large skyphos for the relief of a sick symposiast, a lamp stand that also accommodates a ladle and strainer, and krotala (castanets) and a picnic basket suspended from the back wall. Compared with the figures on the outside, the satyr and maenad (followers of the wine god, Dionysos) appear formal indeed.

[thecrankyprofessor]

Pig-painter, Column Krater, Cleveland Museum of Art. 

Red-figure terracotta, Diameter: 40.6 cm (15 15/16 in.); Overall: 42.5 cm (16 11/16 in.). The A. W. Ellenberger, Sr., Endowment Fund 1926.549

Three men attending (or on their way to or on their way from) a symposium. The leftmost holds a parasol, the center a lyre, and the rightmost a kylix.