Attic black-figure neck-amphora; body black except for reserved strip with black tongues on shoulder and zone of rays at bottom; on neck; A, Hephaistos (Hephaestus), holding rhyton and vine, rides a mule to right between satyrs, the one at left carrying a wineskin; B, Dionysos, with kantharos and vine, sits to right between dancing maenads, with krotala height 39.8 cm; Diameter of lip 19.4 cm
Donor:
Minnie Edith Valentine Merrill
Collection place:
Siana, Rhodes, Dodecanese islands
Culture or time period:
Greek Archaic Period (700–480 BC)
Collector:
Minnie Edith Valentine Merrill
Collection date:
unknown
Person depicted:
Dionysus/Bacchus (Greek and Roman deity) and Hephaistos (Greek deity)
Object type:
archaeology
Object class:
Dionysus, Hephaestus, Neck amphorae, and Satyrs
Production date:
ca. 520-500 BC
Accession date:
October 24, 1949
Department:
Classical Mediterranean
Loans:
S1957-1960 [XXX Wellington]: University Art Museum (UC Berkeley) (1957–1960), S1974-1975 #8: University Art Museum (UC Berkeley) (December 5, 1973–November 19, 1974), S1982-1983 #36: Saint Mary’s College of California (1983–April 29, 1983), and S1982-1983 #3: Crocker Art Museum (October 20, 1982–March 28, 1983)