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Volute krater (Faliscan red-figure ware)
375 BCE-350 BCE
- Medium
- earthenware
- Measurements
- 46.2 × 29.3 × 28.9 cm
- Place/s of Execution
- Faliscum, Italy
- Accession Number
- D87-1969
- Department
- Antiquities
- Credit Line
- National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Purchased, 1969
This digital record has been made available on NGV Collection Online through the generous support of Digitisation Champion Ms Carol Grigor through Metal Manufactures Limited - Gallery location
- Not on display
- Physical description
- Full-bodied vessel with a short neck, wide mouth and two handles terminating at the rim in large volutes decorated with ivy leaves. Decorated in black glaze and red-figure. Side A: The contest of Apollo and Marsyas with Apollo, central, playing the lyre and Marsyas seated above right. Around are the muses. Half-figures may be Zeus and Aphrodite. Side B: The Rape of Chrysippus: Laius drives a quadrya to left, with the youth Chrisippus beside him. The woman's bust above the chariot may be Hippodameia, mother of Chrysippus.