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Title Red-Figure Calyx Krater
Description
English: The scene on this "krater" depicts another milestone in the life of a young man. At the culmination of years of training, a warrior stands beside the family altar preparing to leave for war. He wears a short tunic under a "cuirass" (breastplate) and holds his spear in his left hand. A young woman on the right readies his shield and stretches out her hand to pass his helmet across the altar. A "krater" is a large, wide-mouth vessel used for mixing water and wine; if the handles are in the low position seen here, it is called a "calyx krater."
Date between 470 and 460 BC (Classical)
Medium terracotta
Dimensions Height: 35.9 cm (14.1 in). Diameter: 35.8 cm (14.1 in).
Current location
Walters Art Museum
Accession number 48.262
Exhibition history Heroes: Mortals and Myths in Ancient Greece. The Walters Art Museum, Baltimore; Frist Center for the Visual Arts, Nashville; San Diego Museum Of Art, San Diego; Alexander S. Onassis Public Benefit Foundation (USA), New York. 2009-2011.
Credit line Acquired by Henry Walters, 1925
Ownership history

Thomas B. Clarke, New York, until 1925
Thomas B. Clarke Sale, American Art Gallery, New York, January 7-10, 1925, no. 625
1925: purchased by Henry Walters, Baltimore
1931: bequeathed to Walters Art Museum by Henry Walters

Place of origin Athens, Greece
Source/Photographer Walters Art Museum: