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In the center of hydria's shoulder and part of its body, the Thracian king Lycurgus eats a limb which with his right he has torn from the corpse of a boy which he holds on left arm. He wears chiton, a Thracian dress called zeira and a fox fur cap, alopekis. On right a man, also in Thracian dress, flees rapidly away to right, holding a stick and looking back. On left Dionysos looks on with left hand raised, as if in surprise, and he holds thyrsus in his right. He is wreathed with ivy and wears a long chiton.
Caption Attic red-figured hydria with Lycurgus devouring a boy
Mythic people Dionysos (Deity) ,Lycurgus (King)
Type Clay object
Artist/Creator Attic workshop
Origin Kamiros, Rhodes
Current position The British Museum, London
Index number E246
Dating 480-450 BC
Notes
hydria-The British Museum-1885,1213.20
Δ. Τσιαφάκη, «Η Θράκη στην αττική εικονογραφία του 5ου αιώνα π.Χ. Προσεγγίσεις στις σχέσεις Αθήνας και Θράκης», στο Παράρτημα Θρακικής επετηρίδας 4, Κομοτηνή, 1998, 184 (με επιχειρηματα γιατί δεν απεικονίζεται Τιτάνας που κατασπαράσει τον Ζαγρέα).
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