p1723

ARTIST: Sotades Painter (Greece, active circa 460-450 BC)

TITLE OF WORK: Male figure, perhaps Aeolus at the mouth of his cave, directing the dance of the clouds. Pottery: red-figured astragalos vase

TYPE OF WORK: Painting on red-figure astragalos vase

DATE: -460

DATE DETAILS: BC approx.

DIMENSIONS: 12 x 16.8 cm

COMMENTS: Probably used as receptacle for actual knucklebones (astragalothiki). Dance of girls, formerly identified as Breezes (Aurae), but more probably Clouds. Bearded man, probably Hephaistos as dancing mast

LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Ancient, Greece, Athens

KEYWORDS: girls