Huge red-figure skyphos (cup); A, Apollo, sitting, approached by Artemis (Latin: Diana), behind Apollo is a young girl. B, Dionysos and maenad, a hasty composition much the same as in other Faliscan vases (see ref.). Repaired from fragments, the surface in bad condition.
Donor:
Phoebe Apperson Hearst
Collection place:
Orvieto, Umbria, Central Italy
Verbatim coll. place:
Orvieto, or Narce (?). See J.D. Beazley, Etruscan Vase-Painting, (Oxford, 1947), pp. 84-85; plate 15:9-11.
Culture or time period:
Etruscan and Faliscan
Collector:
Arthur L. Frothingham
Materials:
Ceramic (material)
Person depicted:
Apollo (Greek and Roman diety), Artemis (Greek deity), and Dionysus/Bacchus (Greek and Roman deity)