Attic Black-Figure Amphora
A, two satyrs lifting maenads; in the field, vines with grape clusters. The satyrs move to right but look back, heads down. They bend their right legs and raise their left feet high. Their right arms are bent, with fists held at chest level. Their left hands hold onto the maenads' legs. The satyr on the right is ithyphallic. Each wears a fillet and carries a maenad on his left shoulder. The gesturing maenads are seated to right. On the right, the maenad looks around at her companion, touching the other's left forearm with her right hand. The women wear fillets in their hair, necklaces, and long sleeveless chitons. The maenad on the right also wears a himation.
B, komos (four men); in the field, vines with white fruit. Komasts (1) and (4) dance to right; (4) looks back. Komast (2) steps to left, looks to right, raises his right arm over his head, and places his left hand on the right shoulder of (3), who almost kneels. Komast (3) holds a large white lip-cup and the stem of the vine in his right hand, and extends his left arm. He wears a chlamys over his left shoulder and right arm; the other komasts are nude. Each has an ivy wreath in his hair. Komasts (1) and(4) have hairy abdomens (the abdomen of (2) is restored).
The echinus mouth is reserved on the topside, with a red line on the outer edge. The inside of the mouth and neck are glazed to the join of the neck and shoulder. Triple handles (B/A restored), glazed, reserved inside. On the neck, palmette-lotus chain, in silhouette. Red ridge at join of neck and shoulder. On the shoulder, enclosed tongues. Below each handle, a configuration of 4 palmettes and hanging lotus bud, with 2 small horizontal buds at the intersection of the tendrils and a glaze cross in the center. The figures stand on a glaze line. Below the figures: upright buds, all open, with dots between the calyxes, and bordered with a pair of glaze lines above and below. Above the foot, twenty-nine rays (as restored).
After Clark, A., CVA Malibu 1 (1988).
B, komos (four men); in the field, vines with white fruit. Komasts (1) and (4) dance to right; (4) looks back. Komast (2) steps to left, looks to right, raises his right arm over his head, and places his left hand on the right shoulder of (3), who almost kneels. Komast (3) holds a large white lip-cup and the stem of the vine in his right hand, and extends his left arm. He wears a chlamys over his left shoulder and right arm; the other komasts are nude. Each has an ivy wreath in his hair. Komasts (1) and(4) have hairy abdomens (the abdomen of (2) is restored).
The echinus mouth is reserved on the topside, with a red line on the outer edge. The inside of the mouth and neck are glazed to the join of the neck and shoulder. Triple handles (B/A restored), glazed, reserved inside. On the neck, palmette-lotus chain, in silhouette. Red ridge at join of neck and shoulder. On the shoulder, enclosed tongues. Below each handle, a configuration of 4 palmettes and hanging lotus bud, with 2 small horizontal buds at the intersection of the tendrils and a glaze cross in the center. The figures stand on a glaze line. Below the figures: upright buds, all open, with dots between the calyxes, and bordered with a pair of glaze lines above and below. Above the foot, twenty-nine rays (as restored).
After Clark, A., CVA Malibu 1 (1988).
Images courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art (CC0)