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Komos (on Reading Museum inv. no. REDMG:1951.130.1)

After a symposium there was often an after-party. The guests would take to the streets as a komos—a band of revellers—and dance through the night. This oinochoe (a wine jug) shows a type of komos, with eight nude men dancing. The krater shown under the handle alludes to the feast they are leaving. While the vase shape and image are essentially Greek, this is an Etruscan vase from Italy. The Greeks travelled and traded across the Mediterranean and brought their arts and customs with them.

Check out an animation of the figures on this oinochoe at Panoply.org.uk.

See more about this oinochoe on http://uremuseum.org/cgi-bin/ure/uredb.cgi?rec=REDMG:1951.130.1