Kylix sponde, Symposion, painter Douris, Munich Glyptothek, 26,8 cm diameter, 9,1 cm high, 0,8 kg,
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Original
The link via Wikimedia leads you directly to the original of the Staatliche Antikensammlung München:
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The symposium (Greek "binge"), drink, drinking,
was usually held after a meal enjoyed together. Often the Kottabos, a cheerful Greek party game, was integrated, in which the rest of the wine had to be thrown out of the drinking vessel so skilfully against a disc lying loose on a stand that it fell down noisily. Or a small bowl floating in a water basin had to be hit and sunk.
The participants of the symposium crowned themselves with flowers. A libation, Greek sponde, opened the symposium. Under the direction of a symposium, entertainment in the form of singing (drinking song - Skolion), puzzles and intellectual play was cultivated. Hetären, dancers and mimes could contribute to the sociability. Plato gave literary form to the conversation in his dialogue "Symposion".
This potion bowl shows a symposiate stretched out on a couch, devoutly and probably already intoxicated listening to a young man playing aulos (the aulos was remotely a kind of flute with a double reed; it was often found in the cult of the wine god Dionysos).
The original of the Symposion-Kylix, designed 480 BC by the painter Duris, is an exhibit of the Collection of Classical Antiquities in Munich. The Kylix was found in the Etruscan necropolis of Vulci, near Lake Bolsena. More than 4,000 ancient Greek vases have been recovered from Vulci since 1857. For Etruscans it was fashionable to use vessels from Greece and to give them to their dead as burial objects.
Hand-painted and hand-potted replica reproduced in 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 Friday, May 19, 2017.