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Apulian Red-Figure Volute Krater Fragment
Underworld Painter, Darius Painterabout 340–330 B.C.
The J. Paul Getty Museum
Los Angeles, United States
Reconstructed from three fragments, and belonging to the left side of a scene (raised area at upper left, part of handle root). Above, Hermes looking to right (kerykeion, petasos, chlamys, winged boots); below, paidagogos walking to right, with curved staff. He wears a white long-sleeved garment, a tunic and a chlamys, with a petasos hanging on his back. Added white for his hair and beard. On the far left, part of an open palmette-fan and an almost complete enclosed palmette-fan. Interior, undecorated. Probably part of the same vase as 86.AE.408.2
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Details
- Title: Apulian Red-Figure Volute Krater Fragment
- Creator: Darius Painter, Underworld Painter
- Date Created: about 340–330 B.C.
- Location Created: Apulia, South Italy
- Physical Dimensions: 19.2 × 21.3 cm (7 9/16 × 8 3/8 in.)
- Type: Krater
- External Link: Find out more about this object on the Museum website.
- Medium: Terracotta
- Terms of Use: Open Content
- Number: 86.AE.408.1
- Culture: Greek (South Italian, Apulian)
- Credit Line: The J. Paul Getty Museum, Villa Collection, Malibu, California
- Creator Display Name: Attributed to the Workshop of the Darius Painter (Greek (South Italian, Apulian), active 350 - 325 B.C.) and Underworld Painter , perhaps nearer to the Darius Painter (Greek (Apulian), active about 340 - 310 B.C.)
- Classification: Vessels (Containers)
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