Early Hellenistic period, ca. 320-300 BCE
Made at Taranto
Attributed to connected in style with the Chariot Group of the White Saccos Painter
Found at Ruvo di Puglia (see Rubi on Pleiades) [? Spinazzola says Canosa]
The krater has applied terracotta plaques on the neck (Eros driving a chariot preceded by Hermes) and blinkers beneath the volutes (a youth and a woman); also on the neck appear Nereids with the armor of Achilles and winged hippocamps. In the main upper register, a winged horse, Artemis (labeled above: ΑΡΤΕΜΙΣ) driving a chariot drawn by stags running down a fallen warrior; a youth and a woman in a quadriga guided by Nike and Eros; a warrior on foot and a warrior on a winged horse. In the middle register, chariots driven by Erotes flanking a standing Nike. In the lower register, a hero (Jason or Theseus?) wrestles a bull, observed by a female figure (Medea?) and Eros.
On the reverse, an amazonomachy and Hyakinthos.
In the collection of, and photographed on display in, the Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Napoli (MANN), Naples, Italy
Inv. 82261 (H 3252)
Trendall, Cambitoglou RVA II, pp. 977-978 n. 29/200
