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

Unknown

470–460 BCE · Terracotta · Greek and Roman Art

Part of the head of a wreathed, filleted symposiast, looking up; head, neck, left shoulder and part of upper torso of a wreathed, filleted nude woman, with an earring, playing the aulos, reclining against a cushion; head and upper torso of a symposiast wearing a cap with lappets, holding a kylix in his right hand, with a cushion behind his left elbow; right shoulder, and bent right arm, with hand holding the ends of a heavy fillet, and part of the torso of a symposiast with his himation draped around his waist and thighs

Artist

Unknown

Date

470–460 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