Dionysus (or Prometheus) surrounded by dancing satyrs

Bell krater
68. Bell krater
Painter of Louvre G433 (Greek, Attic)
Dionysus (or Prometheus) surrounded by dancing satyrs
Clay, red-figure, ca. 425-400 BCE
Gift of Rebecca Darlington Stoddard
Photograph courtesy of the Yale University Art Gallery
1913.129

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View of side B
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View of side B

Three youths are visible on the back side of this krater. The natural terracotta fragments are modern pieces of conservation where the original vase is now lost.

Bell krater
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