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Met Art in Publication Fragment of a terracotta krater or dinos (bowl for mixing
Music was essential to the pattern and texture of Greek life, as it was an important feature of religious festivals, marriage and funeral rites, and banquet gatherings.
Marble seated harp player Cycladic 2800–2700 BCE Terracotta column-krater (bowl
The Met presents over 5,000 years of art from around the world for everyone to experience and enjoy.
with high handles) Painter of Bari 5981 ca. 325–300 BCE Terracotta volute-krater
The Met presents over 5,000 years of art from around the world for everyone to experience and enjoy.
BCE Steatite triangular prism Minoan ca. 1900–1750 BCE Terracotta chariot krater
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Artist/Maker (z-a) Accession Number (0-9) Accession Number (9-0) Terracotta column-krater
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alabastron (jar) Mycenaean ca. 1600–1050 BCE Terracotta fragment of a column-krater
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Exekias ca. 540 BCE Terracotta neck-amphora (jar) Exekias ca. 530 BCE Calyx-krater
Explores how many ancient and early modern works help shape ideas of skin color, race, and gender, and examines polychromy’s modern reception.
kouros (youth) Greek, Attic ca. 590–580 BCE Fragment of a terracotta calyx-krater
500–480 BCE Not on view Interior, satyr standing on the mouth of a column krater
