Fragment of Bell Krater with Heads of Paris and Helen
Artist
Unidentified artist
CultureGreek, Attic
Date340–320 BCE
Mediumterracotta
Dimensions3 7/8 x 7 7/8 in. (9.9 x 20 cm)
Classificationsceramics
Credit LineGift of Professors Henry and Sara Immerwahr
Object number77.6.10
DescriptionThis fragment preserves the upper body of a man and a woman, and the arm and possible edge of a wing of a third figure. At left, the man’s head, in three-quarter view, is tilted left. He wears a Phrygian cap with two side flaps. His curly hair, rendered with relief lines, extends to his shoulders. His frontal eyes have an eyebrow, the nose an elongated line, the mouth a single downward curve. He wears a garment decorated with applied purple in dotted wave patterns and a cross-strap over his chest.On View
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