Attic black-figure lekythos; disk foot; handle broken off and reset, possibly modern; on shoulder, strokes above rays; above picture, 2-row dicing; on body, Dionysos, holding a vase of undetermined shape, sits to right between seated women or maenads; branches in field; red in wreath, beard, fillets, draperies; reserved band below.
Donor:
Alfred Emerson and M. Boissé
Collection place:
Athens, Attica, Greece
Culture or time period:
Greek Archaic Period (700–480 BC)
Collector:
Alfred Emerson
Person depicted:
Dionysus/Bacchus (Greek and Roman deity)
Object type:
archaeology
Object class:
Lekythoi
Accession date:
1904
Department:
Classical Mediterranean
Loans:
S1957-1960 [XXX Wellington]: University Art Museum (UC Berkeley) (1957–1960), S1961-1962 #77: Oakland Public Museum (May 16, 1962–September 4, 1962), and S1981-1982 #34: University of California, Davis/Lynn Roller (January 7, 1982–March 26, 1982)