Archeonaut - APT Basilicata

To have an idea of what it meant fora woman in 6th-century BC Greekculture to adorn herself for marriageto her beloved, to be purified andpurify a dead body or take part in aDionysian banquet, you just have tovisit the abundant “Rizzon Collection”.This includes 74 pieces, of Apulian andLucanian manufacture, with unusualand precious shapes, attributed by theexperts to the mastery of the so-calledateraOnce againPisticci Painter and hisdisciple, the Amykos Painter, and other4th-century BC painters. The figuresimmortalised on the sides of the winekraters (large vessels for mixing winewith water and spices), oinochoes(jugs for pouring wine), bowls andcups present settings and scenes ofdaily life, the gynoecium, departuresand returns home, Dionysian feasts andthe monstrous animals that inhabitedthe imaginary afterlife of the Greeks.Eros looks at me languidlyfrom under sultry eyelidsand with his various charms tosses meinto the boundless net of Cypris(Ibycus of Rheggium 6th century BC)The “Domenico Ridola”National Archaeological Museum:interiorRed-figure pelike5th century BC18 19