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Column Krater (mixing bowl for wine and water): Lyre Player in Female Dress
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A single heavily-bearded man facing right playing the lyre with a plectrum. He wears a long chiton with a mantle draped over his shoulder and a headdress with a wreath. His clothing style belongs to a category of similarly dressed men called “Anakreontic Dancers,” after the poet Anakreon who describes men dressing in this manner.
Department of Ancient and Byzantine Art & Numismatics
Robinson Collection.
Robinson Collection.
Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum Bequest of David M. Robinson
Title: Column Krater (mixing bowl for wine and water): Lyre Player in Female Dress
Description:
A single heavily-bearded man facing right playing the lyre with a plectrum.
He wears a long chiton with a mantle draped over his shoulder and a headdress with a wreath.
His clothing style belongs to a category of similarly dressed men called “Anakreontic Dancers,” after the poet Anakreon who describes men dressing in this manner.
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