Pottery: red-figured hydria. Dionysos, Ariadne and Thiasos. In the centre Dionysos in anaxyrides and jerkin decorated with circles and Y marks, over which a panther skin is knotted and tied, with a pair of high boots, and with his thyrsos lying alongside against his right shoulder, sits to left on his mantle, leaning back and clasping with his left arm the left arm of Ariadne, who stands behind him; with his right he seems to be drawing down her face to his, but this hand is for the most part lost. Her left arm passes over his shoulder; she has long wavy hair, and wears a long tied Doric chiton and himation. On the left, facing Dionysos, a Maenad in a long tied chiton, a mantle and chequered sphendone, is sitting looking on, and holds upright on her left knee, with her left hand on its upper edge (in an attitude recalling the well-known motive of Aphrodite or Nike with a shield), a tympanon decorated with a central star and an edging of dotted lozenges; her chiton has slipped off the right shoulder, over which a black band passes. On the top of the tympanon stands Eros, a full-grown boy, with short wavy hair, fillet, and a large palmette-shaped fan in his left, with which he seems to be fanning Dionysos. Behind the seated Maenad, but on a higher level, Pan looks on, playing on the syrinx; he is beardless and has short snub nose, but otherwise ordinary human profile, goat's horns, ears and tail, but human feet, and a mantle hanging from his left shoulder; his hair grows far down the nape of his neck. Behind him, above the side handle, a short bearded figure with goat's legs and ears, and a skin around his left arm (Ægipan ?), dances in an uncouth attitude to left, and bends forward over a pithos buried to its neck in the ground, into which he appears to be pouring liquid from an oinochoe in his left hand, or else rejoicing at the sight of the wine and about to plunge his oinochoe into it. The figure considerably overlaps the palmette ornament. On the right of Ariadne, but on rather higher ground, a Maenad in a mantle which leaves her body bare to the waist, shoes, and with her hair fastened around the head in a plait, dances to left, striking with her right the tympanon which she carries against her left shoulder: it is decorated with a central star and a border of wave pattern. Behind her a bearded Satyr with goat's ears and a mantle about his legs is seated in three-quarter face to left playing upon the triangular harp (magadis): his hair is very rough and is wreathed with ivy. Above the right handle a diminutive winged figure, possibly Echo (or Nyx, 'Night'; see curator's comment), completely muffled in a voluminous mantle, so that only her eye and the fringe of hair on the forehead are seen, stands en face, but looking down on the central scene her wings spread as if about to take flight to the right. The two Maenads wear bracelets, earrings, necklace and beaded headdress. Fine style. White, with yellow details, on the red ground is used for the flesh of the Maenad on the right and of Eros. Gilding on a raised ground for the jewellery, details of the thyrsos, ivy wreath, strings of harp, the necklace of pendants around the neck of the vase, and the centres of the egg pattern round the lip. Hair in light brown wavy strokes. Below, a band of sets of four maeanders separated by chequer squares; at the back, a fine pattern composed of six palmettes with spirals; and below each side handle a single palmette. The design curves over the shoulder.