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
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BCE Marble head and torso of Athena Roman 1st–2nd century CE Terracotta bell-krater
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with high handles) Painter of Bari 5981 ca. 325–300 BCE Terracotta volute-krater
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BCE Steatite triangular prism Minoan ca. 1900–1750 BCE Terracotta chariot krater
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Learn more Follow FEATURED On View: Volute-Krater A magnificent attic red-figure
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Artist/Maker (z-a) Accession Number (0-9) Accession Number (9-0) Terracotta column-krater
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Exekias ca. 540 BCE Terracotta neck-amphora (jar) Exekias ca. 530 BCE Calyx-krater
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alabastron (jar) Mycenaean ca. 1600–1050 BCE Terracotta fragment of a column-krater
500–480 BCE Not on view Interior, satyr standing on the mouth of a column 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
