"Cratera" redirects here. For the planarian genus, see Cratera (flatworm).
Krater
Young rider crowned by a winged Nike (Victory), by Sisyphus Painter, c. 420 BC, in the Louvre
Material
Ceramic
Created
Multiple cultures, originating predominantly in Greece and exported
Period/culture
A vaseform of the Bronze Age and the Iron Age
Place
Circum-Mediterranean
A krater or crater (Ancient Greek: κρᾱτήρ, romanized: krātḗr, lit. 'mixing vessel', IPA:[kraː.tɛ̌ːr]; Latin: crātēr, IPA:[ˈkraː.teːr]) was a large two-handled type of vase in Ancient Greek pottery and metalwork, mostly used for the mixing of wine with water.
A krater or crater (Ancient Greek: κρᾱτήρ, romanized: krātḗr, lit. 'mixing vessel', IPA: [kraː.tɛ̌ːr]; Latin: crātēr, IPA: [ˈkraː.teːr]) was a large two-handled...
forms of kraters, not just the Dipylon kraters. One form of kraters was the calyx krater; one of the largest kraters used to carry wine. This krater was meant...
The Euphronios Krater (or Sarpedon Krater) is an ancient Greek terra cotta calyx-krater, a bowl used for mixing wine with water. Created around the year...
Trésor de Vix, these included a great deal of jewelry and the bronze "Vix krater", the largest known metal vessel from Western classical antiquity. The sites...
The Derveni Krater is a volute krater, the most elaborate of its type, discovered in 1962 in a tomb at Derveni, not far from Thessaloniki, and displayed...
The Amphiaraos krater is a Late Corinthian red-ground column krater. It is considered the masterpiece of the Amphiaraos Painter (whose name vase it is)...
The kalyx-krater used measures at 48.4 cm in height and 49.8 cm in diameter. It has a pair of curved handles emerging from the lower body of the vessel...
Eurytios Krater (also Eurytos Krater, Krater of Eurytus) is the name given to a famous Early Corinthian column krater. The Eurytios krater is dated to...
The calyx krater by the artist called the "Painter of the Berlin Hydria" depicting an Amazonomachy is an ancient Greek painted vase in the red figure style...
purchased the Euphronios Krater in 1972 for one million dollars. Eventually, the Krater was returned to the Italian Government and the Krater was brought to the...
dinner, and women were not allowed to attend. The wine was drawn from a krater, a large jar designed to be carried by two men, and served from pitchers...
BCE, is probably the best-known piece of Late Helladic pottery. It is a krater, a mixing bowl used for the dilution of wine with water, a custom which...
Stamnos, c. 480–470 BC. Mixing Dinos Bell krater, c 330 BC. Calyx-krater, c. 510 BC. Column krater Volute krater Kyathos Psykter Cups Kantharos type A Kantharos...
decorated with illustrations of the sacrifice of Iphigenia. The volute krater shown was made in Apulia around 370–350 BC. It is in the red-figure technique...
Princeton, NJ.: Princeton University Press. pp. 149–177. As on the bell krater at the Cleveland Museum of Art (91.1) discussed in detail by Christiane...
The Sosibios Vase is a Neo-Attic marble krater of the Hellenistic period. It is attributed by signature to Sosibios, a Greek sculptor who was active in...
fiction Troy VII Inscription on the so-called Eurytios Krater, a Corinthian black-figured column-krater dated c. 600 BC, using the Corinthian iota shaped like...
elite status. There are many types of funerary vases, such as amphorae, kraters, oinochoe, and kylix cups, among others. One famous example is the Dipylon...
wall. Some scholars have identified this as a volute krater. An identifying feature of volute kraters is the scroll like detail at the top of the handles...
Gabii Diana of Versailles Dinos of the Gorgon Painter Dying Gaul Eurytios Krater Furietti Centaurs Gladiator Mosaic Hera Borghese Hercules and the lion of...
an Etruscan carnelian scarab. An Attic red-figure fragment from a kalyx-krater dated to around 400 BC depicts the scene where the Greek are climbing down...
calyx krater which shows the god Apollo and his sister Artemis killing the children of Niobe, who were collectively called the Niobids. The krater is known...
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