A stamnos was used for storing or serving wine at symposiums (drinking parties). From Wordnik.com. [Home | The New York Observer] Reference
'Beautiful Arleades' indicates that the stamnos was almost certainly a gift to a youth from an older man. From Wordnik.com. [Home | The New York Observer] Reference
The Minotaur stamnos was exhibited at the J. Paul Getty Museum in 1980, and published in 1977 by Cornelia Isler-Kerényi, who highlighted the singularity of this particular vase in that 'the three protagonists are placed in such a way that, on turning the stamnos around, only one figure is visible at a time: a threefold grouping made possible through the absence of the handles and which is therefore rare, if not unique'. From Wordnik.com. [Home | The New York Observer] Reference
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