Terracotta chariot krater by Unknown

Terracotta chariot krater

Unknown · ca. 1375–1350 BCE · The Metropolitan Museum of Art · New York, USA

Horses and a chariot parade around this mixing bowl from Mycenaean Greece — the very Bronze Age world Homer sings about. When old King Nestor sends Telemachus on from Pylos toward Sparta, the boys ride out in a chariot much like this one, rattling across the p

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