1927.145: Mastoid (cup): Satyrs Teasing a Goat
Vessels
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- 1927.145
- Title
- Mastoid (cup): Satyrs Teasing a Goat
- Classification
- Vessels
- Work Type
- vessel
- Date
- c. 525-500 BCE
- Places
- Creation Place: Ancient & Byzantine World, Europe, Athens (Attica)
- Period
- Archaic period
- Culture
- Greek
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/291265
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Terracotta
- Technique
- Black-figure
- Dimensions
- H. 9.3 x diam. 10.8 cm (3 11/16 x 4 1/4 in.)
Provenance
- Recorded Ownership History
- E. P. Warren, gift; to the Fogg Art Museum, 1927.
State, Edition, Standard Reference Number
- Standard Reference Number
- Beazley Archive Database #13407
Acquisition and Rights
- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Gift of E. P. Warren
- Accession Year
- 1927
- Object Number
- 1927.145
- Division
- Asian and Mediterranean Art
- Contact
- am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
- Permissions
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Descriptions
- Description
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Intact black-figure, handled mastoid cup. Figural decoration on a white ground; reserved stripe around the lower body.
On both sides, a pair of satyrs flank a goat. In profile, the nude satyrs bend over and reach towards the goat, their right hands touching a vine. Added red is used for the satyrs's beards.The goats are male with full horns and beards as well as added red dots surrounding their neck. The background is decorated with twisting vines.
Publication History
- Beazley Archive: Classical Art Research Centre, website, University of Oxford, accessed August 14, 2009, http://www.beazley.ox.ac.uk/record/0AF39762-D87E-41AC-94AB-8781CFA10C9A
- George H. Chase and Mary Zelia Pease, Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum, U.S.A.: volume 8, Fogg Museum and Gallatin Collections, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, MA, 1942), p. 39, pl. 359, 21.5
Verification Level
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