An ancient Greek Attic red-figure Nolan Amphora by Hermonax, on one side stands nude frontal Dionysos wearing a laurel wreath and cloak draped over his arms, holding a thyrsos, looking to the right; on the reverse: a nude satyr holding an oinochoe, wineskin, and a thyrsos.
Athens, Attica.
Ca. 470 – 460 BC.
Hermonax was a pupil of the Berlin Painter. His painting is known from just over 100 vases and fragments, including several Nolan amphorae and two dozen stamnoi, ten of which were signed by the artist.
cf.: neck amphorae: Louvre G376 (ARV2 488,68: Dionysos); Altenburg, Lindenau Museum. 289 (ARV2 487,62: Satyr); Moscow, Pushkin Museum. 601 and 1071 (ARV2 488,75-76: Satyr).
Formerly in a German private collection.
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