Terracotta fragment of a column-krater (bowl for mixing wine and water)
On the top of the rim, pendant lotus buds with dots in the interstices; on the overhang of the rim, ivy; on the inside of the rim, maenad and satyr; lovemaking; male bending to right
Artwork Details
- Title: Terracotta fragment of a column-krater (bowl for mixing wine and water)
- Period: Archaic
- Date: last quarter of the 6th century BCE
- Culture: Greek, Attic
- Medium: Terracotta; black-figure
- Classification: Vases
- Credit Line: Gift of Dietrich von Bothmer, Distinguished Research Curator, Greek and Roman Art, 2011
- Object Number: 2011.604.3.607
- Curatorial Department: Greek and Roman Art
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