Bronze handles from a large volute-krater (vase for mixing wine and water)

Unknown

ca. 500–475 BCE · Bronze · Greek and Roman Art

The handles have the distinctive shape associated with a type of krater made in Vulci and exported to Etruscan settlements as far away as Spina in Northern Italy. The youths wearing winged boots and holding the bridles of their horses are almost certainly the twin gods, Castur and Pultuce (Roman: Castor and Pollux), the sons of Zeus; the two are known in Etruscan as Tinas Cliniar. These are the largest and most elaborate handles of this type now extant.

Artist

Unknown

Date

ca. 500–475 BCE

Medium

Bronze

Culture

Etruscan

Department

Greek and Roman Art

Credit line

Fletcher Fund, 1961