Birds Wing-Jug

• The Birds Wine Jug was dated c. 480 BC
• The Birds wine jug was found in Athens
• The Bird wine jug shows

  • an Auletes
  • Two beared figures in bird costumes
  • Dancing
• The bird wine jug was made before Aristophanes' play Birds in 414 BC
• The Birds wine jug is useful because it shows us

  • Aulos player
  • Movement (dancing)
  • Elaborate winged costume
  • Purple headdress
  • feathers on knees
  • Vines in background
• The Limitations of the Birds wine jug are

  • Not Aristophanes' play
  • only the chorus
  • only two
• Name the figures

  A) Chorus member

  B) Aulos player