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

Painter of London E 489

second quarter of the 5th century BCE · Terracotta · Greek and Roman Art

Fingers from hand of a figure to right; head and upper torso of a god to right, wearing a laurel wreath, with his himation draped over his shoulders, and holding a sceptre or trident in his right hand, with his left arm extended; part of a woman to left, with her right arm extended, and a bracelet around her wrist, wearing a peplos with a mantle pinned at her shoulders

Artist

Painter of London E 489

Date

second quarter of the 5th century 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