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

Unknown

third quarter of the sixth century BCE · Terracotta · Greek and Roman Art

Lower body of a draped woman running to left, wearing a garment patterned with red dots and white rosettes; Herakles wrestling the Nereus; to the right of Herakles' elbow, nose, mouth, part of the neck, and arm of a draped woman to left; in between the heads of Herakles and the woman, two letters of an inscription?

Artist

Unknown

Date

third quarter of the sixth 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