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| Keywords: Agrigento Painter - Column-Krater with Komos - Walters 4871 - Side A.jpg This red-figure column-krater depicts the komos on both the front and back On the front left is a youth with a chlamys draped around his shoulders and a wreath around his head He stands to the right holding in his left hand a lyre with a sash hanging from it; he leans on a staff held in the right hand In front of him another youth with a chlamys draped in a similar fashion moves left looking around He carries a staff in his left hand diagonally across his chest and with the right he manipulates his genitals Next is a youth who stands to the right playing a barbiton from which a sash hangs He holds the plectron in his right hand; the fingers of his left rest on the strings A chlamys is draped over his left shoulder; he wears a thick fillet In front of him stands a fourth youth who moves to the left an oinochoe in his right hand a kylix in his left A chlamys is draped around his shoulders and he wears a wreath On the back left is a mantled youth with a fillet who moves right a kylix in his raised left hand and a staff in the right held diagonally across his lower body His pursed lips and closed eye suggest that he is engrossed in song In the center another mantled youth moves left He holds a staff in his right hand over his shoulder and tilts his head back as if also in song On the right a third mantled youth moves left He holds up an oinochoe in his right hand and a skyphos in his left ca 470 460 BC Classical terracotta cm 47 6 37 5 h x max diam ; at mouth cm 37 6 diam ; at foot cm 18 9 diam accession number 48 71 6937 Don Marcello Massarenti Collection Rome cat no 192 Henry Walters city Baltimore Walters Art Museum Henry Walters Acquired by Henry Walters with the Massarenti Collection 1902 place of origin Attica Greece Walters Art Museum license Ancient Greek red-figure pottery in the Walters Art Museum Agrigento Painter Column kraters Chlamydes Media contributed by the Walters Art Museum needs artist update Komos scenes | ||||
