Asset ID:
10425
CMS Object ID:
387028
Accession Number:
AN1896-1908.G.275
Title:
Attic red-figure pottery krater depicting a mythological scene
Object Name:
volute-krater
Associated person(s) + dates:
The Group of Polygnotos (artist)
Object dating:
450 BC - 420 BC ; Classical Period (Greece) (480 - 323 BC)
Associated place(s):
Unknown (find spot) ; Attica (place of creation)
Dimensions:
47.5 cm (height) ; rim 29.5 cm (diameter) ; foot 17 cm (diameter) ; 36 cm (width) ; 2.5 cm (rim thickness)
Materials/ techniques:
pottery, with painted decoration
Responsible department:
Antiquities
Single/ multiple object:
Single
Asset copyright notice:
© Ashmolean Museum
Key words:
- 475-425
- 5th
- added
- ancient
- arms
- arv
- athena
- athens
- attic
- attributes
- attribution
- b.c
- background
- baltimore
- band
- bands
- bc
- beauty
- beazley
- birth
- black
- boots
- bowl
- brother
- caduceus
- case
- century
- chiton
- chlamys
- circumscribed
- classical
- clay
- cm
- collection
- column-crater
- craftsman
- crouel
- cva
- dart
- decoration
- degrees
- diadem
- dipinto
- dot
- dots
- double
- drama
- e.d
- edge
- egg
- elaborate
- epimetheus
- epithemeus
- eros
- evils
- falsehood
- fig
- fig
- fillet
- first
- flat
- flight
- flower
- folds
- foot
- g.275
- garments
- germ
- gift
- gifts
- girl
- girls
- gloss
- god
- gods
- greece
- greek
- grievance
- ground
- group
- grows
- gv
- hair
- hand
- handle
- handles
- hands
- hat
- head
- heart
- heavy
- hephaestus
- hephaistos
- hermes
- himation
- iiii
- illustrations
- inscriptions
- ivy
- jar
- junction
- krater
- large
- laurel
- leaves
- left
- legend
- legends
- line
- lines
- lip
- lit
- lotus
- love-stricken
- mallet
- mouth
- mythological
- neck
- next
- no
- oldfield
- olympus
- opposed
- origins
- palmettes
- pandora
- pattern
- patterns
- perfidy
- petasos
- pl
- polygnotos
- polygnotus
- pottery
- preliminary
- prez
- prometheus
- red
- red-figure
- reeder
- reference
- relief
- right
- rim
- row
- rows
- scene
- series
- shiny
- short
- short-sleeved
- shoulder
- side
- sides
- simple
- single
- sketch
- soldier
- spears
- staff
- stamnos
- starts
- state
- stick
- string
- stylised
- taenia
- technique
- tendril
- tongues
- trendall
- v.525
- vase
- vessel
- vickers
- volute
- volute-crater
- volute-krater
- warnings
- water
- webster
- wide
- wine-mixing
- winged
- wings
- woman
- women
- world
- wreath
- young
- youth
- zeus
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