Amphiaraos Krater
The Amphiaraos krater is a
column krater. It is considered the masterpiece of the Amphiaraos Painter (whose name vase it is) and one of the major specimens of the red-ground vase painting of Corinth
.
Dated to circa 560 BC, the Amphiaraos Krater depicts on the front a frieze of horsemen and above it the departure of
Second World War. Since 1945, the Amphiaraos krater has been housed in the State Historical Museum in Moscow.[2]
Bibliography
- Matthias Steinhart: Amphiaraos-Krater, in Der Neue PaulyBd. 1 (1996), Sp. 609
References
- ^ Pausanias 5, 17, 5ff.
- ^ "Кратер коринфский с изображением сцены отъезда Амфиарая, около 560 г. до н.э."