Terracotta fragment of a bell-krater (bowl for mixing wine and water)
Not on view
Obverse, Artemis to right, wearing a peplos and sakkos, holding a bow and arrows in her left hand; wreathed Apollo to right with a chlamys, with his right arm extended; Herakles to right, wearing an chitonikos with his lion skin, with his right arm raised over his head, holding his club in his hand, and the tripod in his left hand; helmeted Athena to left; wearing a peplos and her aegis, with her left hand below her hip, holding her spear in her right hand; Reverse, draped youth to left, and looking to right, wearing a himation with his right arm bent; winged woman to right wearing a sakkos, chiton, and himation; head, neck, left shoulder and hand of a draped, wreathed youth, looking to left, with a bit of his lyre (Eos and Kephalos?), which is preserved below the fascia; on both the obverse and reverse, below the rim, a band of laurel; below, a fascia with an egg pattern with dots in the interstices; in between the obverse and reverse, each handle has, around the handle root, an egg pattern with dots in the interstices; below the handle patch, addorsed palmettes with ribbed central fronds and tendrils; the ground line is comprised of a meander and cross squares with dots in the corners
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