Amphiaraos-Krater

As Amphiaraos crater a spätkorinthisch - red-ground column krater is called. He is considered a major work of Amphiaraos painter and one of the major works of the Corinthian vase painting.

The in the period around 560 BC dated Amphiaraos crater showed on the front of a rider Fries and about the departure of Amphiaraus. The back was decorated with a battle frieze about again with Amphiaraus, who participated in the chariot races in the funeral games of Pelias. Under one of the Henkel also a wrestling match is shown. The representations on the crater are regarded as particularly colorful and detailed. And thus you see the anger in the eyes of Amphiaraus, whom he puts on Eriphyle, she is the only one of the family members, which does not ask for his safe return. One also shown anxiously acting seer points to the imminent death of the hero. In this form, the presentation took place on the mentioned in Pausanias Kypseloslade in Olympia.

The crater was found in 1873 in Cerveteri and arrived in the Berlin Collection of Classical Antiquities, but has been missing since the end of World War II.