  About the Artwork
  
  
  Intended to serve as a funerary offering, this volute krater, set in its own stand, was created in a Greek colony in southeastern Italy. On front of the krater, an image of the deceased with his horse is shown as part of a funerary monument. Above is a scene of banqueting. The colonial artist, in a style characteristically his own, has densely packed the reverse surface of the vessel with a complex assembly of the major deities of the Greek pantheon. Zeus, enthroned in the center, is flanked by gods and goddesses identified by the attributes they hold. Below Dionysus and Ariadne ride in a chariot drawn by two panthers. Greeks and Amazons battle above.
  
  
  Title
  South Italian Funerary Vase
  
  
  Artwork Date
  between 320 and 310 BCE
  
  Artist
  Attributed to Baltimore Painter
  
  
  
  Life Dates
  400-300
  
  
  
  
  Nationality
  
  
  
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  Some definitions include:
  Belonging to a people having a common origin based on a geography and/or descent and/or tradition and/or culture and/or religion and/or language, or sharing membership in a legally defined nation.
  
  
  
  Greek
  
  
  
  Culture
  
  
  
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  Medium
  Clay
  
  
  Dimensions
  Overall: 45 3/8 × 25 × 19 15/16 inches (115.3 × 63.5 × 50.7 cm)
  
  
  Classification
  Ceramics
  
  
  Department
  Greco-Roman and Ancient European
  
  
  Credit
  Founders Society Purchase, Hill Memorial Fund, William H. Murphy Fund, Dr. and Mrs. Arthur R. Bloom Fund and Antiquaries Fund
  
  
  
  Accession Number
  
  
  
  This unique number is assigned to an individual artwork as part of the cataloguing process at the time of entry into the permanent collection.
  Most frequently, accession numbers begin with the year in which the artwork entered the museum’s holdings.
  For example, 2008.3 refers to the year of acquisition and notes that it was the 3rd of that year. The DIA has a few additional systems—no longer assigned—that identify specific donors or museum patronage groups.
  
  
  
  1983.25
  
  
  Copyright
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