细节
AN ATTIC BLACK-FIGURE COLUMN KRATER
CIRCA 530-520 B.C.
Side A: a mythological wedding procession with gods in attendance, showing the bridal couple Peleus and Thetis, in a chariot drawn by four horses, behind them stands Dionysos wearing a wreath and holding a kantharos and branching leafy tendril, processing behind the horses is Apollo playing a kithara and three women with baskets and vessels on their heads, leading them is Hermes with characteristic winged boots, the whole procession being greeted by a crowned goddess
Side B: a race between two four-horse chariots, the horses and charioteers straining forwards
Handle plates: each with a frontally facing four-horse chariot, the rim with frieze of conjoined lotus buds
Graffito on the base, repaired
9 5/8 in. (24.4 cm.) high