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ARTIST: Nikosthenes Painter (Greece)

TITLE OF WORK: On the neck, two youths dance around a krater. On the body seven dancing satyrs alternating with six dancing women.

TYPE OF WORK: Painting on pottery, black-figured amphora vase

DATE: -520

DATE DETAILS: BC approx.

DIMENSIONS: 31.1 height; 16.9 diam.

COMMENTS: The distinctive shape of this amphora is a trademark of the potter Nikosthenes, who signed his name below one handle. More than 100 vases are known to be from the same workshop; almost all of them wer

LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Ancient, Greece, Attica, Athens

KEYWORDS: Satyr