Date : approx. between 760 and 740 B.C.
Material : Terra cotta
Acquisition : Purchased by subscription (1874)
Géométrique Ancien
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Greek Antiquities
Container (Cratère)
Vitrine : V10
Areas related
Ile de Naxos (Greece)
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During the eighth century B.C. the Geometric style that had originated in Athens spread throughout the Greek-speaking world. This beautifully proportioned vase found in Kourion (Cyprus) differs a number of ways from the three monumental Geometric krater displayed elsewhere in the gallery. The shoulder is subdivided by four handles rather than two and the carpetlike decoration was applied over a light ceramic slip ground instead of directly onto the clay. Since the 1870s scholars have debated where the vase was made. Current opinion attributes it to a workshop on Euboea, an island just off the east coast of Attica, or to the island on Naxos, in the Cyclades.
The Cesnola Collection.
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