Men dancing

Kantharos
70. Kantharos
Greek, Boeotian
Men dancing
Clay, black-figure, ca. 550 BCE
Gift of Rebecca Darlington Stoddard
Photograph courtesy of the Yale University Art Gallery
1913.184

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Dancing revelers
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Dancing revelers

The figures of dancing men continue on the back side of this kantharos. Now partly damaged, the scene depicts four men, some of whom raise their drinking vessels in jubilation.

Kantharos
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