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krater
Sign in to saveA krater or crater (, ; , ) was a large two-handled type of vase in Ancient Greek pottery and metalwork, mostly used for the mixing of wine with water.
Key facts
- Artifact.name
- Krater
- Artifact.image
- 300px
- Artifact.image_caption
- Young rider crowned by a winged Nike (Victory), by Sisyphus Painter, BC, in the Louvre
- Artifact.material
- Ceramic
- Artifact.period
- A vaseform of the Bronze Age and the Iron Age
- Artifact.created
- Multiple cultures, originating predominantly in Greece and exported
- Artifact.place
- Circum-Mediterranean
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Material used
- stone
- Image
- Cratère à volutes - Peintre des Niobides.jpg
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- described by source
- Pauly–Wissowa
- Commons category
- Kraters
- culture
- Mycenaean Greece
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Encyclopedic overview
12 sectionsContents
- Form and function
- Usage
- Forms
- Column krater ({{Transliteration|grc|kelébe}})
- Calyx krater
- Volute krater
- Bell krater
- Metal kraters
- Ornamental stone kraters
- See also
- References
- External links
A krater or crater (, ; , ) was a large two-handled type of vase in Ancient Greek pottery and metalwork, mostly used for the mixing of wine with water.
==Form and function==
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “krater” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.