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s5605

Tumbler. Eight dancing youths. Terracotta black-figure vase. Greek, ca. 525–510 B.C.

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DATE: -515
DATE DETAILS: BC approx.
DIMENSIONS: 8.5 cm height; 9 cm diameter
COMMENTS: These youths are descendents of the komasts, the padded dancers that originally entered Athenian iconography from Corinth. We can interpret the figures here as young men in good spirits after a sympos
LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Ancient, Greece, Athens
DANCE FORM: solo
KEYWORDS: nude men

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