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Tuesday, June 23, 2020

Sweet Wine

Interior of cup attributed to the Epeleios Painter (Vulci, ca. 510 B.C.), representing a satyr filling a mixing bowl from a wineskin (Munich, Antikensammlungen, formerly 2119A, 2619A, now J331):


Inscriptions:
  • ΕΠΕΛΕΙΟΣ ΚΑΛΟΣ (between legs and to left of back: Epeleios is handsome)
  • ΣΙΛΑΝΟΣ ΤΕΡΠΟΝ (to right of face: a Silen enjoying himself, or Terpon the Silen)
  • ΗΕΔΥΣ ΗΟΙΝΟΣ (to right of face: sweet wine)
See Robin Osborne, Archaic and Classical Greek Art (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998), pp. 17-20.