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