Terracotta fragments of a column-krater (bowl for mixing wine and water)
One fragment shows Hermes to right, wearing a tunic and chlamys, holding his kerykeion in his left hand; tip of nose and right shoulder and bent arm, seen from beneath himation, of a draped male looking over his right shoulder; a second fragment shows, at the left, the top of the head of a figure?; two lotuses; head of a woman to right, wearing a diadem and earring; right arm with hand holding a staff; a third fragment, shows part the head of a draped figure, wearing a diadem; a fourth fragment depicts, part of the head of a wreathed youth holding a staff in his left hand (Apollo?)
Artwork Details
- Title: Terracotta fragments of a column-krater (bowl for mixing wine and water)
- Period: Late Archaic/Early Classical
- Date: 490–470 BCE
- Culture: Greek, Attic
- Medium: Terracotta; red-figure
- Classification: Vases
- Credit Line: Gift of Dietrich von Bothmer, Distinguished Research Curator, Greek and Roman Art, 2011
- Object Number: 2011.604.2.480a–d
- Curatorial Department: Greek and Roman Art
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