Column krater (mixing bowl) depicting a symposium (A), three male youths (B)
Column krater (mixing bowl) depicting a symposium (A), three male youths (B)
Column krater (mixing bowl) depicting a symposium (A), three male youths (B)
Column krater (mixing bowl) depicting a symposium (A), three male youths (B)
Column krater (mixing bowl) depicting a symposium (A), three male youths (B)
Column krater (mixing bowl) depicting a symposium (A), three male youths (B)
Column krater (mixing bowl) depicting a symposium (A), three male youths (B)
Column krater (mixing bowl) depicting a symposium (A), three male youths (B)
Column krater (mixing bowl) depicting a symposium (A), three male youths (B)
Column krater (mixing bowl) depicting a symposium (A), three male youths (B)
Column krater (mixing bowl) depicting a symposium (A), three male youths (B)
Column krater (mixing bowl) depicting a symposium (A), three male youths (B)
Column krater (mixing bowl) depicting a symposium (A), three male youths (B)
Column krater (mixing bowl) depicting a symposium (A), three male youths (B)
Column krater (mixing bowl) depicting a symposium (A), three male youths (B)
Column krater (mixing bowl) depicting a symposium (A), three male youths (B)
Column krater (mixing bowl) depicting a symposium (A), three male youths (B)
Column krater (mixing bowl) depicting a symposium (A), three male youths (B)

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Column krater (mixing bowl) depicting a symposium (A), three male youths (B),

ca. 460 BCE

Attributed to the Hephaistos Painter, Greek, 5th century BCE
Greek, Attic
Classical Period, ca. 480–323 BCE
y1929-203

Information

Title
Column krater (mixing bowl) depicting a symposium (A), three male youths (B)
Dates

ca. 460 BCE

Maker
Attributed to the Hephaistos Painter
Medium
Red figure ceramic
Dimensions
h. 46.5 cm, diam. 38.0 cm (18 5/16 x 14 15/16 in.)
Credit Line
Trumbull-Prime Collection
Object Number
y1929-203
Place Excavated

Europe, Italy, Nola, Campania

Inscription
Scratched onto base: KOP / ME / KOPINOIOYPTES / METAS
Marks/Labels/Seals
Shippers mark on base: AP
Culture
Attic
Period
Attic, Red-figure
Type
ceramics, column kraters
Materials
glaze, slip, ceramic
Subject
figures (representations), dots, youth, plant-derived motifs, palmettes, couches, symposia, running ornament, kylikes, men, mantles, plectra, strigils

Mary Hollister Prime (née Trumbull) (1827-1872) and William Cowper Prime, Class of 1843 (1825-1905); 1890 gift to Princeton University Art Museum.

Red-figure column-krater: Symposium / three male youths

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