Eurytios crater
The Eurytios crater is an early Corinthian colonic crater .
The Eurytios crater was built around the year 600 BC. Dated. It is a vase that combines the still quite new possibilities of black-figure vase painting and polychrome painting with regard to the design of the shape and decoration of a vase with particularly qualitative painting. The crater found in Cerveteri , which is now in the Louvre in Paris , shows on the obverse the banquet of Eurytus for Heracles . This scene, after which the vessel was named, is the only known of its kind in Corinthian vase painting so far. In support of the painting, many lettering of the figures are added. The reverse shows a battle scene, possibly from the Trojan War . Under the handles is a kitchen scene and probably the earliest depiction of the suicide of the great Ajax . Herons and animal friezes and a deer hunt are shown in the lower picture frieze.
The creator (s) of the vessel including the painting are no longer known today. The vase painter was named after this piece Eurytios painter .
Front: preparation for the symposium
Front: Iole , Eurytios and Heracles at the symposium
Front: banquet participants
literature
- Matthias Steinhart : Eurytios-Krater , in Der Neue Pauly Vol. 4 (1998), Col. 306
