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Trefoil Oinochoe (wine pitcher): Maenads and Pantheress

Trefoil Oinochoe (wine pitcher): Maenads and Pantheress

Greek

Black-figure oinochoe with trefoil mouth, low handle from shoulder to rim. The scene depicts two maenads who face one another dancing and holding krotala (clappers). They both wear a chiton and himation, decorated with added red and white in light stripes, dots, and rosettes. Added white is also used for the figures' flesh. At their feet, a pantheress faces right with her frontal face peering straight at the viewer. The background is populated with long, curving vines.

Terracotta

Archaic period

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