Some marble sculptures were completely painted and gilded, effectively obscuring the marble surface; others had more limited, selective polychromy used to emphasize details such as the hair, eyes, and lips and accompanying attributes.
40 BCE Marble head of an elderly woman Roman ca. 40–20 BCE Terracotta column-krater
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BCE–1st century CE Terracotta cup Roman 1st century BCE–1st century CE Volute-krater
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statuette of a youth seated on a rock Greek, Boeotian ca. 300 BC Terracotta bell-krater
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Discover the mythological scenes and innovative decoration of an exceptional drinking cup made in Athens during the late sixth century BC.
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kylix (drinking cup) Greek, Attic 500–480 BCE Terracotta fragment of a volute-krater
Greek artists rapidly assimilated foreign styles and motifs into new portrayals of their own myths and customs, thereby forging the foundations of Archaic and Classical Greek art.
eagle’s head Greek, Rhodian ca. late 7th–early 6th century BCE Terracotta volute-krater
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a branch Greek, Laconian 6th–5th century BCE Terracotta fragment of a volute-krater
Known as hoplites, these [foot] soldiers were characteristically equipped with about seventy pounds of armor, most of which was made of bronze.
BCE Terracotta amphora (jar) Lysippides Painter ca. 530 BCE Terracotta volute-krater
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.; the famous calyx krater by Euphronios from about 515 B.C.; Roman copies of mid-fifth-century
