Würzburg Brygos bowl

The Brygos cup of Würzburg is an Attic - red-figured drinking cup v (Kylix) from around 480th It was made by the potter Brygos and decorated by the Brygos painter named after him, possibly identical to him . It shows some of the most famous images of ancient vase painting .

Outside of the Würzburg Brygos bowl: Komasten during the move, the barbiton player on the left, the draw player in the middle on the right

Outside of the Würzburg Brygos bowl: Komasten when moving

Apart from a break in the stem, the shell is intact. It is a particularly successful work of type B , which was the leading form in Attic bowl production for more than a hundred years. The contours of the vessel are perfectly shaped from the foot to the edge of the pool. The potter Brygos has left his signature in graceful letters on the clay-ground inside of the left handle: Brygos epoiesen , Brygos made it . The bowl has a height of 14 centimeters and a diameter of 32.2 centimeters. It used to belong to the Feoli collection , today it is in the antique collection of the Martin von Wagner Museum in Würzburg and has the inventory number HA 428 (= L 479) there.

Inside with the vomiting scene

It is controversial in research whether the vase painter and the potter are the same person. Therefore the painter was given the emergency name Brygos painter by John D. Beazley . Like the potter, he too shows all his skills. The inside picture ( tondo ) shows a young participant in a symposium who vomits after gluttony. A blonde woman holds his head helpful and caring. Since only prostitutes were generally present at such festivals, it must be a hetaera . Both people are represented with wreaths. The youth also leans on his walking stick, which is a sign of leisure. It may be a young aristocrat. The picture is surrounded by a meander . Such reliefs were not unusual and were part of such feasts. Unlike today in the western world, nobody in antiquity took offense at such a scene. The outside shows a parade ( Komos ) that was carried out at the end of a symposium. The partly naked, partly only clad with a chlamys (coat) are wreathed with vine leaves, the coats are decorated with the dots typical of the Brygos painter. One of the revelers plays the aulos , the double flute, another the barbiton , a harp-like instrument. The participants of the procession move with springy steps. Some details, such as the headbands and the wine wreaths, are painted with red overcoat. Above all, the clay picture and the barbiton player are often reproduced pictorial works in the relevant literature and other media.

literature

• Irma Wehgartner : The "Brygosschale" , In: Ulrich Sinn , Irma Wehgartner (editor): Encounter with antiquity. Evidence from four millennia of Mediterranean culture in the south wing of the Würzburg Residence . Ergon, Würzburg 2001, ISBN 3-935556-72-1 , pp. 76-77

Web links

Commons : Würzburger Brygosschale  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

supporting documents

1. ↑ For example, the website on musical archeology as well as the website on the special exhibition Music and Dance in Ancient Greece ( Memento of the original from April 29, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. the barbiton player as a symbolic image, also John Boardman's manual for red-figure vases in Athens. The archaic time (Mainz 1981) shows this picture on the dust jacket.