Red-Figure Volute Krater Attributed to the Darius Painter in the Princeton University Art Museum, July 2011

South Italian, Apulian

Attributed to the Darius Painter

Place made: Apulia, Italy

Red-figure volute krater: Medea at Eleusis, ca. 340–330 B.C.

Ceramic

h. 100.1 cm, diam. 37.0 cm (39 7/16 x 14 9/16 in.)

Museum purchase, Carl Otto von Kienbusch Jr., Memorial Collection Fund in honor of Francis Follin Jones

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An inscription on the lintel identifies the edifice as "the Temple of Eleusis," the sanctuary of Demeter near Athens and the seat of the famous Eleusinian Mysteries.;

Text from: artmuseum.princeton.edu/collections/objects/32749