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Terracotta fragments of a column-krater (bowl for mixing wine and water)

third quarter of the sixth century BCE
Not on view
The largest fragment has vines with bunches of grapes and a draped maenad to right, with her left arm bent; the second fragment has the knee and leg of a draped maenad to right and the legs and tail of a satyr to left; behind the tail, an ivy branch; the third fragment depicts a vine, bunch of grapes, and the tail of a satyr

Artwork Details

Object Information
  • Title: Terracotta fragments of a column-krater (bowl for mixing wine and water)
  • Period: Archaic
  • Date: third quarter of the sixth 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: 2011.604.3.495a–c
  • Curatorial Department: Greek and Roman Art

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