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The RD Milns Antiquities Museum provides access to its online collection database for students, teachers, researchers and the public. Ranging in date from over 4000 BC to AD 600 and covering a geographical area from modern Iran to Wales, and Germany to Egypt, the RD Milns Antiquities Museum holds the largest publically available collection of ancient Mediterranean antiquities in Queensland.

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Lekythos with Youths and Satyrs 490 BC

Part of a Swiss Private collection, acquired from Herbert A. Cahn, Kunst der Antike, Basel, 4th May 1990.
LEKYTHOS
FIRING, INCISING, THROWING, PAINTING
Black-Figure (pottery)
TERRACOTTA
18.001
An Athenian lekythos (oil flask) decorated in the black-figure style with a Dionysiac procession consisting of four figures. The first figure wears a himation (cloak) and raises his hand in revelry. The second figure is a satyr (half goat/half man companion of Dionysos) with a full beard and holding a rhyton (drinking horn). The third figure continues the movement of the group towards the right and plays and aulos (double flute), with the fourth figure, naked except for a cloak around his shoulders, looks back at the group. Between the figures are nonsense letters, imitating the labels seen on some vases.
Purchased from ArtAncient, London, with funds from the Alumni Friends of The University of Queensland from Dr Stephen Papas, Brisbane, 2017.


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