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Firstly this post is later than planned secondly it’s not what I was originally going to talk about. My initial idea was to discuss Aphrodite and my past/present dealings with Her. However, ‘inspiration’ of sorts struck that I should write about the Agathos Daimon – coincidentally this idea came on the second day of the…
During the fourteenth century, ivory carvers usually exploited the double-sided visual field within the volutes of croziers, arranging complementary devotional images back to back on either side. This attentiveness to the specifications of the crozier as a flat, double-sided picture plane is an especially noticeable feature of Parisian ivory carving of the fourteenth century (compare acc
Ancient Luxury and the Roman Silver Treasure from Berthouville | The Getty Museum
Dionysos Thyrsos
Pottery: red-figured nestoris (wine jar). Designs red on black ground, with white accessories. On the neck and shoulder, panels: (a) Egg-moulding, maeander, and laurel-wreath; palmettes and wave-pattern, (b) Egg-moulding, laurel-wreath, wave-pattern, and ivy; tongue-pattern and egg-moulding. Below the handles, palmettes; below the designs, all round, maeander and crosses. On the lower handles, chevrons; on the upper, in front and at the back, ivy-wreaths; up the sides, laurel-wreaths. The upper handles terminate above in volutes; each has a crossbar at the side and on the top ending in disks on which are painted stars. (a) Dionysiac scene: In the centre is the youthful Dionysos seated to left, with long curls, taenia tied round head, bordered drapery under him, endromides, large branch in left hand (partly obliterated), right hand raised as if beckoning; behind him and leaning against him, with left arm on his left shoulder, is a youthful Satyr with face to front, long hair, and shoes; below them, a mule lying to left and looking back, and two laurel-branches. Facing Dionysos is a youth with bordered chlamys over his shoulders, and shoes, holding out a white cantharos in left hand; in front of him is a laurel-branch. His right arm is placed round a pole against which he leans; round it is twined a vine spreading over the scene above, from which hangs an oscillum to left, the face painted white. Behind, on a higher level, is a female figure to right, with hair escaping from under an open embroidered cap, earrings, necklace, bracelets, long girt bordered chiton fastened on the shoulders and held up in right hand; she beckons with left forefinger. On the right is a Maenad to right, looking back, with close embroidered cap, earrings, necklace, short embroidered chiton with radiated border above, fawn-skin with girdle, and laced-up endromides, leaving the toes and heel bare, with a broad strap under the instep; in left hand a tympanon with chevron-pattern round it. Before her is a Satyr to left, with right foot raised, white hair and short beard, and endromides; he holds up a syrinx in right hand. (b) Thiasos: On the left, above the ground-level, is a female figure to right, apparently descending a slope; she wears a wreath, bracelet on right arm, long girt bordered chiton with stripe down the side and apoptygma reaching to the hips, fastened on the shoulders, himation over her arms, and sandals; right hand raised, in left she holds up a tympanon on which is an eight-pointed star. Before her on the ground-level is a youthful Satyr moving to right, with long rough hair, shoes, thyrsos in right hand, and an amphora over left shoulder. Before them on an intermediate level is a youth moving away to right, looking to left, with embroidered fillet, drapery over left arm, and shoes; in left hand he holds a-bell-shaped crater (seen from the side), with chevrons round the neck and a palmette under the handle, in black on red. Above him is an embroidered taenia; below, a heap of stones. On the right a female figure moves away, looking back, with hair floating behind, radiated ampyx, earrings, necklace, bracelets, long girt chiton with stripe down the side, fastened over left shoulder, sandals, and situla in left hand. Before her on a higher level is a youth rushing away to right, with ivy-wreath, bordered drapery wound round his loins and over left arm, and sandals; right hand extended, in left a lyre.
