Red-figure Lucanian bell krater
Terracotta, first half of 4th cent. B.C. Pisticci, S. Maria del Casale Metaponto, Museo Archeologico Nazionale, inv. 297057
Depicted here is a convivial scene with a dancing satyr and a nude hetaera. On the right, a flourishing grapevine forms a pergola, under which appears a young man intent on playing the game of kottabos. This personage is perhaps to be identified with Dionysus.
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