DescriptionBrygos Painter ARV 385 228 Alkaios and Sappho - Dionysos and maenad (07).jpg
English: object type / vase shape: attic red figure krater with spout at the bottom, in the shape of a kalathos (basket for wool)
- description: side A: the poet Alkaios playing the barbitos, singing (ooo), the poetess Sappho (face in three-quarter-view) holding her barbitos, looking towards Alkaios; inscriptions: ALKAIOS, SAFO, DAMA KALOS
- exterior side B: Dionysos holding kantharos and branches, maenad or Ariadne with oinochoe and branches; inscriptions: KALOS KALOS
- production place: Athens
- painter: Brygos Painter (very late work)
- period / date: early classical, ca. 470 BC
- material: pottery (clay)
- height: 52,5 cm
- findspot: Agrigento
- museum / inventory number: München, Staatliche Antikensammlungen 2416
- bibliography: John D. Beazley, Attic Red-Figure Vase-Painters, Oxford 1963(2), 385, 228
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One of the earliest surviving images of Sappho, from c. 470 BC. She is shown holding a barbitos and plectrum, and turning to listen to Alcaeus. Attic red figure krater with spout at the bottom, in the shape of a kalathos (basket for wool)