Terracotta volute-krater (bowl for mixing wine and water) ca. 500 Attributed to the Karkinos Painter Obverse, the abduction of Antiope by TheseusReverse, Amazons riding upIn its mythological beginnings, Athens was attacked by the Amazons, warrior women whose homeland lay to the north and east of the Black Sea. The incursion was repulsed, and Theseus, the ruler of Athens, took Antiope, the Amazon queen, as his wife. Of special interest on the obverse is the shield device of a flute-playing crab. The motif plays on the name of a famous flute-player in late-sixth century Athens, Karkino
Terracotta volute-krater (bowl for mixing wine and water) ca. 500 Attributed to the Karkinos Painter Obverse, the abduction of Antiope by TheseusReverse, Amazons riding upIn its mythological beginnings, Athens was attacked by the Amazons, warrior women whose homeland lay to the north and east of the Black Sea. The incursion was repulsed, and Theseus, the ruler of Athens, took Antiope, the Amazon queen, as his wife. Of special interest on the obverse is the shield device of a flute-playing crab. The motif plays on the name of a famous flute-player in late-sixth century Athens, Karkinos, crab. The device occurs again on the reverse of the calyx-krater by Euphronios and Euxitheos () exhibited in the Greek galleries on the main Terracotta volute-krater (bowl for mixing wine and water) 255014
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