Czére Andrea szerk.: A Szépművészeti Múzeum közleményei (Budapest, 2008)

ANNUAL REPORT • A 2008. ÉV - MARIANNA DÁGI: Highlighted Works of Art: Chamber Exhibitions Organized by the Collection of Classical Antiquities

on a high-backed throne. If, however, the figure had indeed always been seated on a stool, it is more likely to have been the funeral statue of a Roman lady, in which case the head must have been a portrait. Based on the style of carving, the statue presently known as the "Enyedi Juno" is datable to the second century AD. The winter exhibition (25 November - 1 March 2009) formed part of the centenary of the Collection of Classical Antiquities. To honour the anniversary, and as a first step in its ongoing collaboration with the Budapest Museum of Fine Arts, the Thessaloniki Archaeological Museum lent pieces from one of the richest and most significant archaeological finds in northern Greece. The five silver and three bronze vessels displayed at the exhibition A Symposium in Macedonia (fig. 16) were recovered in 1962 from a tomb containing more than a hundred objects near Derveni, north of Thessaloniki. They date to the age of Philip II and Alexander the Great (second half of the fourth century BC). In Tomb B, which belonged to the cemetery of ancient Lete, dozens of silver and bronze symposium vessels were buried. The set displayed at the exhibition included vessels used for storing, preparing, serving and drinking wine. The bronze pieces were made of a special alloy which allowed its creators to imitate the colour of gold. The amphora among them belongs to a rare, lidded type. It was much older than the burial, dating to the end of the fifth century. It was presumably used for containing unmixed wine. The so-called kalathos-situla, a 'basket-like bucket', was used for mixing water and wine. The oenochoe ('wine jug') on display belonged to a type with a trefoil-lipped mouth and a handle in the shape of an acanthus leaf. The silver vessels formed part of an expensive tableware set. The exhibited drinking cups represented shapes popular in Macedonia at the end of the fourth century. The outer surface of the kalyx (the type was named after the cup of a flower) was decorated with gilded floral motifs, the inside with a Gorgoneion in relief. The two silver kantharoi with rising handles were also a common type: bronze and pottery versions are often found in Macedonian tombs. The group was completed by two silver utensils. Wine was transferred to the cups by means of the ladle, and the strainer was used when filling the cups, to filter sediment and retain infused aromatic substances. Mthough the Derveni group displayed in Budapest showed only a small part of the rich funerary equipment of the tomb, it illustrated how for ancient Macedonians the symposium or drinking party with all its luxury was an essential element of the afterlife. In this fifth year of the "Highlighted Works of Art" series, the scholarly concept of the spring and summer exhibitions was the work of János György Szilágyi, that of the autumn show of Hans Rupprecht Goette. The winter exhibition was conceived by Marianna Dági and Despina Ignatiadou. The guides were written by János György Szilágyi, Hans Rupprecht