The Collections: The University of Texas at Austin offers the first sweeping guide to the university’s irreplaceable artifacts. Its holdings, spanning more than 170 million objects, result from research and pedagogical interests that cover a radical range of subjects-archaeology, ethnography, fine and performing arts, rare books and manuscripts, decorative arts, photography, film, music, popular and material culture, regional and political history, natural history, science, and technology. Revelling satyrs and maenads is a popular subject at this time, and similarly posed dancing figures are common.Believing that a strong academic enterprise welcomes and thrives upon collections, The University of Texas at Austin has long been one of the world’s distinguished collecting universities. The third holds an aryballos by a string in his extended right hand. The one in the center gestures withhis right hand. The first holds a circular object (possibly a aryballos) in his extended right hand. On the back are three mantled youths, two to the right and the third to the left. She wears a peplos, diadem, earring, necklace, bracelets, and wreath, and holds a ribbon between her hands.

On the right another maenad dances right, looking around. His right arm is extended back over his head, and in his left hand he holds a thyrsos. He also wears a fawn skin for a cloak and a wreath. Next comes a satyr who goes right, looking around. Over her head she holds a thyrsos in her right hand, and in her left is a tympanum.

She wears a peplos girded at the waist, bracelets, earring, wreath and possibly a necklace. In front of him a maenad dances right, looking around. On the left a satyr wearing a fawn skin for a cloak and a wreath stands to the right in his right hand he holds up a thyrsos from which an ivy vine hangs. This red-figure bell krater depicts satyrs and maenads revelling on the front.

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