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Thamyris, wearing thracian clothes, plays the lyre in an open-air in a circle of listeners including Muses and Aphrodite, flanked by Erotes. Under a tree and on a base line up three dressed xoana, allowing to identify the location of the scene with a sanctuary.
Caption Red-figured hydria depicting Thamyris competiting with the Muses, while Aphrodite and Eros are watching
Mythic people Muse / Muses (Deity) ,Thamyris (Musician)
Type Clay object
Artist/Creator Manner of Meidias, Attic workshop
Current position Metropolitan Museum of Art
Index number 16.52
Dating Circa 410 BC
Notes
Γι' αυτό το αντικείμενο βλ.: Attributed to the manner of the Meidias Painter | Terracotta hydria (water jar) | Greek, Attic | Classical | The Metropolitan Museum of Art (metmuseum.org)
Βιβλιογραφία και στο: LIMC VII.1, σελ. 903, Thamyris, Thamyras 7.
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