Myron’s bronze group sculpture of the story of Athena and Marsyas was often copied, as on this large stone krater, which helps us to see the composition and the placement of the lost arms.
A krater was a large vase used for wine. At a symposium, a meeting involving drinking, water was mixed with wine in a large krater, and transferred to smaller cups for drinking. Being a satyr, Marsyas was an attendant of Dionysos the god of wine
Athens National Museum 127
Purchased in 1884 from Martinelli of Athens
Arias: Mirone, 19.3, pl. VI.22
Walston: Catalogue of Casts in the Museum of Classical Archaeology (1889), 32, no.121
Papaspiridi: Guide du Musée Nationale d’Athènes (1927), 48
Staïs, Marbres et Bronzes du Musée Nationale d’Athènes, 29
Found in Athens
