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 View CategoriesHome > Catalog > |Greek Coins| > |Greek Antiquities| > AG40492Greek, Bronze Jug or Krater Handle, Ornamented With Head of Dionysos, c. 400 - 200 B.C. This handle was probably once attached to wine jug or to a krater, a punch-bowl type vessel used for diluting and serving wine. The earliest kraters were bronze and almost exclusively the volute-type. Very few bronze kraters have survived. Most often only the handles remain.
AG40492. cf. BnF Bronzes 1450, ROM Metalware 124, Superb, complete and intact, nice green patina, Greek bronze jug or krater handle, height 12.7 cm (4 5/8"), ornamented with facing head of Dionysos; SOLD
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