English: object type / vase shape: attic white ground and red figure cup (kylix)

- description: interior (white ground) maenad in wild motion, holding a baby-panther and a thyrsos; the dark circular miscolouring in the middle has been caused by another kylix standing on top of this kylix during firing in the kiln - exterior (red figure) dionysiac thiasos: side A: dancing maenad with thyrsos, Dionysos seated with kantharos, wineskin, satyr playing aulos, dancing maenad with krotala - exterior side B: maenad deterring satyr, between 2 dancing maenads - production place: Athens - potter: Brygos - painter: Brygos Painter - period / date: late archaic, transition to early classical, ca. 490-480 BC - material: pottery (clay) - diameter: 28,5 cm - findspot: Vulci - museum / inventory number: München, Staatliche Antikensammlungen 2645 - bibliography: John D. Beazley, Attic Red-Figure Vase-Painters, Oxford 1963(2), 371, 15

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