Handles and feet of a bronze louterion (basin)

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1st quarter of the 5th century BCE · Bronze · Greek and Roman Art

The three feet are in the shape of lions' paws. The handles terminate in recumbent satyrs (followers of the wine god, Dionysos) holding drinking horns. The iconography is usual for an object that contained water.

Artist

Unknown

Date

1st quarter of the 5th century BCE

Medium

Bronze

Culture

Greek

Department

Greek and Roman Art

Credit line

Purchase, Joseph Pulitzer Bequest, 1959