Terpsichore is seated in the center on a diphros, playing upon a harp (magadis). She wears a long sleeved chiton, a mantle around her lap and a stephane. In front of her stands Mousaios, a youth in an himation, wreathed with laurel. He holds a lyre (chelys) and a shoot of laurel at the top. On the left stands Melousa, in Doric chiton and peplos, who holds in her left a pair of flutes. Above Terpsichore hangs a kithara. Inscriptions with figures’ names can be read above them, ΤΕΡΨΙΧΟΡΑ, MOYΣAIOΣ and ΜΕΛΕΛΟΣΑ.
Caption Attic red-figured amphora with Mousaios, Terpsichore and Melousa.
Mythic people Terpsichore (Muse), Muse / Muses (Deity) ,Musaeus (Musician, poet, soothsayer)
Type Clay object
Artist/Creator The Peleus Painter
Origin Vulci, Italy, Attic
Current position The British Museum, London
Index number E 271
Dating circa 440 BC
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