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

Unknown

490–470 BCE · Terracotta · Greek and Roman Art

One fragment shows Hermes to right, wearing a tunic and chlamys, holding his kerykeion in his left hand; tip of nose and right shoulder and bent arm, seen from beneath himation, of a draped male looking over his right shoulder; a second fragment shows, at the left, the top of the head of a figure?; two lotuses; head of a woman to right, wearing a diadem and earring; right arm with hand holding a staff; a third fragment, shows part the head of a draped figure, wearing a diadem; a fourth fragment depicts, part of the head of a wreathed youth holding a staff in his left hand (Apollo?)

Artist

Unknown

Date

490–470 BCE

Medium

Terracotta

Culture

Greek, Attic

Department

Greek and Roman Art

Credit line

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