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Head in wood
Etruscan mirror
Sarcophagus lid
Slab of a Volterra urn
Crater with columns
Kylix
Fragment of relief with Brahmanical ascetics
Monaco
False shelf (Nāgadanta) figured
False shelf (Nāgadanta) figured
Curvilinear relief fragment with scenes from the life of the Buddha
Standing Buddha statue
Head of the Buddha
Parthenopaios crater
Oinochoe con Hermes e Nike
Oinochoe with Hermes and Nike (detail)
Lebes gamikos
Crater of the Ghiottoni
Crater with representation of the myth of Orestes
Fragment of Euphronius
Shield umbone
Pair of earrings and ring
Crosses in gold foil
Sword grip
Solid of Emperor Phocas
Pair of fibulae
Fibbia Gota
Signet ring
Head of Jupiter
Floor
Lovere cup
Floor A
Floor B
Painted altar
Trivulzio Diatreta Cup
Patera (dish) from Parabiago
Heracles at rest
Portrait (possibly Maximian)
Theatrical mask from Caesarea Maritima
Nymph with peplum
Volute oil lamp with figured disc
Epigraph of Pontius Pilate
Lucky fisherman statue
Treasury of Caesarea Maritima
Head in wood
Etruscan mirror
Sarcophagus lid
Slab of a Volterra urn
Crater with columns
Kylix
Fragment of relief with Brahmanical ascetics
Monaco
False shelf (Nāgadanta) figured
False shelf (Nāgadanta) figured
Curvilinear relief fragment with scenes from the life of the Buddha
Standing Buddha statue
Head of the Buddha
Parthenopaios crater
Oinochoe con Hermes e Nike
Oinochoe with Hermes and Nike (detail)
Lebes gamikos
Crater of the Ghiottoni
Crater with representation of the myth of Orestes
Fragment of Euphronius
Shield umbone
Pair of earrings and ring
Crosses in gold foil
Sword grip
Solid of Emperor Phocas
Pair of fibulae
Fibbia Gota
Signet ring
Head of Jupiter
Floor
Lovere cup
Floor A
Floor B
Painted altar
Trivulzio Diatreta Cup
Patera (dish) from Parabiago
Heracles at rest
Portrait (possibly Maximian)
Theatrical mask from Caesarea Maritima
Nymph with peplum
Volute oil lamp with figured disc
Epigraph of Pontius Pilate
Lucky fisherman statue
Treasury of Caesarea Maritima

Crater of the Ghiottoni

Anonymous

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Civic Archaeological Museum of Milan

Civic Archaeological Museum of Milan

Corso Magenta, 15, Milan

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This ceramic crater (vase for mixing water and wine) of Apulian production comes from Ruvo di Puglia and is dated to 380-370 BC. The scenes depicted are pertinent to the world of Fliacian farce, a comic genre born in the Doric colonies of southern Italy; the italiot vases constitute the best iconographic documentation to better understand this genre. The topics of the Fliacesan farce were generally those represented by the contrast between masters and slaves, pedagogues and youngsters, cooks and scullery, as well as reworking of mythological topics in a comic key. The curious name of the crater is due to the scene represented on side A in which the gray-haired Philotimides (the greedy) tastes sweets together with the old Charis ("the grace") while a servant leaves after having stolen other delicacies. On the side B, on the other hand, the parody of Heracles is represented: the young hero, beardless and with a lion's skin on his shoulders, holds the world in place of an atlas; while he is in this uncomfortable position, two Satyrs approach and take away his club, the other the quiver with arrows.
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Title: Crater of the Ghiottoni

Author: Anonymous

Date: 380 - 370 a.C.

Technique: Ceramic

Displayed in: Civic Archaeological Museum of Milan

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