bell krater
- Museum number
- 1824,0501.38
- Description
-
Pottery: red-figured bell-krater (wine-bowl).
Designs red on black ground, with inner markings faintly traced in red. Above the designs, laurel-wreaths; below each, a band of maeander and crosses.
(a) Zephyros pursuing Hyakinthos (?) or Eros and youth (?): Zephyros/Eros to right, nude, beardless, and winged, with hands extended, pursues Hyakinthos/youth, who is beardless, with fillet and chlamys over left arm, and moves away to right, looking back.
(b) Two ephebi confronted, in himatia, with mouths open, as if conversing; the one on the left has a staff; between them hangs a pair of halteres.
- Production date
- 440BC-420BC (circa)
- Dimensions
-
Diameter: 25.20 centimetres
-
Height: 23.70 centimetres
-
Weight: 1.35 kilograms
- Location
- On display (G73/dc7)
- Acquisition date
- 1824
- Department
- Greek and Roman
- Registration number
- 1824,0501.38
