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Terracotta volute-krater (vase for mixing wine and water)

Attributed to Sophilos

early 6th century BCE

On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 152

Sophilos is the first known artist from the Athenian Potters' quarter to have signed his name on his work—once as potter and three times as painter. This early form of the volute-krater is decorated with two boars in front and a bull with another animal in back.

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Title: Terracotta volute-krater (vase for mixing wine and water)

Artist: Attributed to Sophilos

Period: Archaic

Date: early 6th century BCE

Culture: Greek, Attic

Medium: Terracotta; black-figure

Dimensions: Overall: 19 3/8 x 21 13/16in. (49.2 x 55.4cm)
diameter 17 7/8in. (45.4cm)

Classification: Vases

Credit Line: Purchase, Mr. and Mrs. Martin Fried Gift, 1977

Accession Number: 1977.11.2

Essay

Greek Art in the Archaic Period

Chronology

Ancient Greece, 1000 B.C.-1 A.D.

"Sophilos and Early Greek Narrative": Metropolitan Museum Journal, v. 51 (2016)

Greek Vase Painting
[adapted from The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin, v. 31, no. 1 (Fall, 1972)]

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"Sophilos and Early Greek Narrative": Metropolitan Museum Journal, v. 51 (2016)

Greek Vase Painting
[adapted from The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin, v. 31, no. 1 (Fall, 1972)]

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