Euphronios Krater
A red-figure wine bowl on which the body of Sarpedon is carried off by Sleep and Death.
The krater was illegally excavated in Italy in 1971 and bought by the Metropolitan Museum, which returned it in 2008. It is now in the Museo Nazionale Cerite in Cerveteri, near where it was found.
Materials: Fired clay with black gloss
Manufacture: Red-figure technique: the figures reserved in the red of the clay and the ground painted black; details with a fine brush.
The muscles of the bodies drawn with fine lines – the painter studied anatomy.
The names of the figures written in Greek letters beside them.