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Title
Cratère (Chiusi).
Additional title: Dance of the satyrs.
Names
Imprimerie Lemercier et cie (Publisher)
Collection

Wonders: Images of the Ancient World

Dance -- Ancient

Dates / Origin
Date Issued: 1862 - 1864
Library locations
The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Picture Collection
Shelf locator: PC-WON DAN-Anc
Topics
Lyres
Bacchantes
Satyrs (Greek mythology)
Dance -- Greece -- To 499
Thyrsus
Greeks -- Clothing & dress -- To 499
Genres
Prints
Notes
Content: Satyrs (bearded, naked male deities with tails) and bacchantes (female worshippers of Bacchus, god of wine) frolic in the two picture strips of this crater. A crater was a large vessel used to blend water and wine before the mixture was served out in smaller cups.
Content: Small image at lower left shows the vase as a whole.
Content: These people and creatures would have been referred to as a "thiasus", a group assembled in honor of a god. The satyrs carry wine cups, while some of the bacchantes hold a "thyrsus", a staff symbolic of Bacchus and topped with what looks like a pine cone. One of the bacchantes plays a lyre.
Source identifier: 11461 (Hades Legacy Identifier / Struc ID)
Physical Description
Lithographs
Extent: 1 print : col. ; 32 x 33.5 cm.
Type of Resource
Still image
Identifiers
Universal Unique Identifier (UUID): 126b1000-c5be-012f-563b-58d385a7bc34
Rights Statement
The New York Public Library believes that this item is in the public domain under the laws of the United States, but did not make a determination as to its copyright status under the copyright laws of other countries. This item may not be in the public domain under the laws of other countries. Though not required, if you want to credit us as the source, please use the following statement, "From The New York Public Library," and provide a link back to the item on our Digital Collections site. Doing so helps us track how our collection is used and helps justify freely releasing even more content in the future.

Item timeline of events

  • 1862: Issued (Approximate)
  • 2020: Digitized
  • 2024: Found by you!
  • 2025

MLA Format

The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Picture Collection, The New York Public Library. "Cratère (Chiusi)." The New York Public Library Digital Collections. 1862 - 1864. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/510d47e4-5fc0-a3d9-e040-e00a18064a99

Chicago/Turabian Format

The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Picture Collection, The New York Public Library. "Cratère (Chiusi)." New York Public Library Digital Collections. Accessed March 28, 2024. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/510d47e4-5fc0-a3d9-e040-e00a18064a99

APA Format

The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Picture Collection, The New York Public Library. (1862 - 1864). Cratère (Chiusi). Retrieved from https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/510d47e4-5fc0-a3d9-e040-e00a18064a99

Wikipedia Citation

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Cratère (Chiusi).