Greek terracotta oinochoe: chous (jug)

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Greek terracotta oinochoe: chous (jug)
Greek terracotta oinochoe: chous (jug)

The scene depicts two women in festive dress perfuming garments. A stool suspended by chords is piled with folded clothing. On the ground below this swing, there is a pile of wood shavings and twigs from which smoke rises. One woman carefully empties an oinochoe onto the fire. They are purifying clothing that young maidens will wear at the festival, and the swing is key to the founding myth of the Aiora ritual. The other woman surveys the swing and stands beside a stately chair with a footstool over which more clothes are slung. At the far left is a wreathed boy wearing a himation (cloak). The shape of the vase facilitates the association of the scene with the Anthesteria, a three-day festival held in January/February that celebrated the new wine with the special inclusion of young children, an epiphany of Dionysos, and the ritual marriage of the god with the basilinna, the wife of the chief archon of Athens. While the precise meaning of the scene is not understood, it is evident that the Meidias Painter has melded significant features of the festival into a beautiful tableau.

Inscribed: "Ganymede is fair".

To understand the Aiora ritual, read all about it on the page where I feature the lekythos below.

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Greek, Attic, ca. 420-410 BCE. Attributed to the Meidias Painter.

Met Museum, New York (75.2.11)

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