Psykter

A psykter ( ancient Greek ψυκτήρ ) is an in Attic workshops in the second half of the 6th century BC, developed together with the calyx crater vessel. It has a mushroom-like shape and is used in conjunction with the cup crater. One of the two vessels contained cooling snow or ice, in the other there was the still unmixed wine. However, today it is unclear whether the psykter took up the wine or the coolant. The psykter was inserted into the crater and probably swam to the liquid. The sometimes flat bulbous vessels on their tall cylindrical foot were henkellos. Although the name psykter comes from ancient times, but is not used in connection with this type of vessel. Found using the psykter primarily the symposium.

Pictorial representations often show him standing in the crater, which apparently contained the cooling mass, while drawn from the psykter the wine.