Kylix Brygos-Painter, Maenad with Panther, Antikensammlung Munich, Glyptothek Munich, 24 cm, 500 g
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Furious Maenad with Thyrsos and Panther, original picture, Collection of Classical Antiquities Munich
The following link leads you via wikipedia directly to the significantly larger original representation:
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Ecstatic maenad (Greek "madman").
Often to be found in the wake of the wine god Dionysos. In her right hand she holds a thrysos, a staff with pine cones at the top, with her left hand she hurls a young panther through the air. She also wears a panther fur as a cape. A lambent serpent writhing to the tiara in her hair.
Tondo, round image of an Attic-white-ground Kylix of the Brygos painter, 490-480 BC, Vulci site, an Etruscan city near the Tyrrhenian Sea, Italy.
Exhibit of the Staatliche Antikensammlung Munich, Inv. no. 2645.
Hand-painted replica has original size.
A seal on the handle bears the inscription "MUSEUM COPY", on the back "HAND MADE IN GREECE".
This product was added to our catalog on Monday, October 19, 2015.