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An Attic Dinos in the British Museum

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 December 2013

Extract

B.M. B46. The catalogue describes this vase thus:—

Acquired 1867: Blacas Coll. Dinos. Ht. 13 in. Diam. 12½ in. Slightly restored, imperfectly fired. Around rim, chain of lotus and buds; on shoulder, tongue-pattern. Two friezes: above, banquet scene, of seven couches, on each of which two male banqueters; between the two end couches, group of five servants, in attendance on the banqueters; below, animal frieze. Beneath this a broad zone of black, and on bottom, polypus pattern.

The principal scene shows a series of seven couches, on each of which recline two bearded male figures, facing to 1.; seven of them wear wreaths. Alongside each couch stands a table, bearing viands for the banquet. From 1. to r., the first, fourth, sixth, tenth and thirteenth hold out phialae in varying attitudes; the third, eleventh and fourteenth hold out kerata, in the act of drinking, or to have them refilled, while the seventh and eighth also have each a keras; the fifth holds out a kantharos; the twelfth raises an apparently empty r. hand; the second also raises his r. hand, but the object he holds is hidden by the first figure; the ninth plays the double flute.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © The Society for the Promotion of Hellenic Studies 1926

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References

1 Mr. F. N. Pryce first drew my attention to this.

2 We may admire the devotion to a theory which lighted on the one Ionic eye amongst the nineteen persons represented.

3 Cf., e.g., Price, E. R., J.H.S. xliv., 1924, p. 200.Google Scholar

4 On the relation between E. and W. styles in general, see some apposite remarks of ProfessorBeazley, , Camb. Anc. Hist. iv., p. 586.Google Scholar