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| Keywords: Florence Painter - Column Krater Depicting Symposiasts and a Satyr Dancing with Youths - Walters 4866 - Bottom.jpg This red-figure column-krater depicts a symposium with three men on klinai and girl playing auloi On the left a bearded man lies on a kline chest frontal head to the right Only his upper half and half of the kline are shown He has a mantle draped around his left shoulder and waist and wears a thick fillet and wreath He gestures to his fellow banqueters Beneath him a table is visible and above on the wall on the left hangs a basket with covering cloth and on the right a flute case To the right is a girl playing auloi in chiton mantle thick fillet and wreath who stands in profile to the right playing auloi A bearded man and a youth lie on the next kline Both wear mantles thick fillets and wreaths in a fashion similar to the first two figures The man holds a phiale in his right hand and turns his head to the right towards the youth who faces and gestures toward him; a small kylix in black hangs from the right index finger of the youth Beneath them a table and footstool are visible; hanging above from left to right are a basket with covering cloth and a kylix All three support themselves by resting their left elbows on cushions The back depicts an old man dancing and two youths In the center a bearded balding potbellied man advances to the right as if dancing He raises his left foot high off the ground holds a stick in the air above his head in his right hand and extends his left hand out holding a mantle which is wrapped around his back and shoulders He wears a wreath and thick fillet and appears to have a string possibly an amulet around his right forearm On the left a mantled youth goes left looking around a staff in his right hand On the right another mantled youth moves left holding a staff out in his right hand The two youths have fillets ca 460 450 BC Classical terracotta cm 48 2 36 7 h x max diam ; at mout cm 37 4 diam ; at rim cm 18 8 diam accession number 48 66 1243 Don Marcello Massarenti Collection Rome date and mode of acquisition unknown cat no 208 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 Florence Painter Media contributed by the Walters Art Museum needs category review Media contributed by the Walters Art Museum needs artist update | ||||
