"Crater Warriors". National Archaeological Museum . Athens
Oksibafon with the image of Scylla . The Louvre
Crater ( ancient Greek. Κεράννυμι - “mix” ) is an ancient Greek vessel made of metal or clay , less often marble for mixing wine with water . The characteristic features of the crater are a wide neck, two handles on the sides of a capacious vessel and a leg.
There are two types of craters in antique ceramics:
- oxybaphones , oxybaphons (όξύβαφον, oxybaphon ) - bell-shaped, with a body extending upward, resting on a pallet, with two horizontal handles below;
- vessels with a wide neck, above the mouth of which there are vertical volute - shaped handles, below connected with the body.
In Mycenae , the so-called "Warrior Crater" was found - a clay crater of the 12th century BC. er The crater is decorated with images of marching warriors, after which the woman looks.