The skyphos discussed in this article, now in the Civic Archaeological Museum of Milan, shows a strong stylistic affinity with the works of the White Sakkos Painter, so called after the white saccoi generally worn by the women depicted upon his vases. This Apulian vase-painter was a pupil of the Baltimore Painter, whose workshop may possibly have been located at Ruvo or Canosa; in fact there is a close connexion between the works of the two painters. The skyphos, most probably (...) painted in the second half of the fourth century B.C., is high about mt. 0.40 and shows, on the obverse, Dionysos while playing a cithara, a musical instrument typical of Apollo: this peculiarity, more used in sculptures than in pictures, makes this work unusual in the world of the Greek pottery. The study of the skyphos also propose again the question of the close connexion, iconographic and religious, between Dionysos and Apollo. (shrink)