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Attic Red-Figure Column Krater

Date

470–460 B.C.

Medium

Terracotta

Culture

Greek (Attic)

Department

Vessels

Institution

Getty Museum

Primary record for a column krater reconstructed from 34 joined fragments. A. Four mantled youths in conversation, in pairs of two. At left a youth (upper body and head missing) leans on his stick to right facing his partner (lower body and feet preserved). At right a youth stands to right in a relaxed position, leaning on his short stick, a wreath around his head. His right arm is akimbo and he gestures with the fingers of his left hand in front of his mouth as if he is talking. Before him is a young man with a fillet around his head, who listens supporting himself with the javelin that he holds in his right hand. His staff and left foot extend into the frame. Behind the head of the second youth from right: [K] ALOS. B. Three draped youths in conversation. At left stands a youth (right arm and lower part of the body missing) facing right, holding a torch in his raised left hand, and a fillet around his head. The middle youth talks to the young man at right. The latter, a fillet around his head, holds a flower up between the fingers of his right hand in front of his face. His left hand rests on the staff that he leans upon. Rim slightly convex on top with a vertical overhang; ovoid body; ogee foot. Top of rim decorated with black dotted chain of lotus buds. Part of a volute of a palmette and an ivy leaf preserved on the handle plate. Overhang of the rim on B decorated with double row of dots between line in black glaze; A, totally missing. On neck: A, black dotted chain of hanging lotus buds between two black lines in a reserve panel; B, black. Figural decoration on the body set in panels framed by double row of dots between black lines along sides on top, by a row of short black tongues on the shoulder below the junction with the neck, and by a reserved band below. Zone of rays above the foot. Outside of foot black except at bottom. Resting surface and underside foot reserved. Inside black.

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