This Megaran goblet features fourteen dancers, perhaps maenads, holding each other's hands in an ecstatic ceremony.
Provenance: Ḥimṣ.
Substance: terracotta.
Dimensions: height 10 cm, diameter 15 cm.
Era: 3rd century BCE.
Photo: Marwān Mislmānī.
Collection: National Museum of Damascus.
Bašīr Zuhdī. Lamḥā ʿan al-ʾālāt al-musīqīyyā al-qadīmā wa mašāhid al-mūsīqīyyīin ʿala ʾāṯārinā al-fannīyyā. Annales archéologiques arabes syriennes 1972 (pp. 81-121).
No comments:
Post a Comment