Object Image

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

Unknown Artist

At the shoulder, a band of tongues; below, filleted woman to right, wearing a himation, holding a torch in her left hand; back of the head, neck, right shoulder, part of the upper right arm and upper torso, and tail, right buttock, and right leg of a satyr to right; the panel ornament is comprised of a vertical line between dots

Credit: Gift of Dietrich von Bothmer, Distinguished Research Curator, Greek and Roman Art, 2011

460-440 B.C.
Terracotta; red-figure
2011.604.2.477
Image and text © Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2019

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