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Column Krater (mixing bowl for wine and water): Lyre Player in Female Dress

Column Krater (mixing bowl for wine and water): Lyre Player in Female Dress

active c. 470 BCE

Manner of The Pig Painter

Greek

A single heavily-bearded man facing right playing the lyre with a plectrum. He wears a long chiton with a mantle draped over his shoulder and a headdress with a wreath. His clothing style belongs to a category of similarly dressed men called “Anakreontic Dancers,” after the poet Anakreon who describes men dressing in this manner.

Terracotta

Classical period

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