kraters

The pieces returned to Italy also include "kraters" - huge vases used to mix wine and water

ajc.com - News 2010

But even more interesting, I thought, was the plethora of everyday objects—a set of silver jugs and bowls for a princely banquet, next to a case of similar ceramic objects used for classical symposiums from 550-300 B.C. These included the kraters in which wine was diluted with water by the host, who could thereby determine the pace and degree of inebriation at these drinking parties.

A Classical Education to Treasure Paul Levy 2011

There are Ancient Greek kraters, Egyptian mummy cases and pre-Columbian fertility figurines.

Easily Accessible Pleasures 2010

Now, when they gathered in the servants 'halls around the balefires, and served out well-earned kraters of black wine at the end of a long day, _now _they would have something more edifying over which to exclaim than the number of childhood diseases he had narrowly survived or his current paternity suit.

Asimov's Science Fiction 2004

Roses had blossomed here in kraters set upon a tessellated pavement.

The Shadow of the Torturer Wolfe, Gene 1980

Tall narrow-mouthed urns, bath-shaped vessels, and bell-kraters common (VIII, Fig. 10): trefoil-mouth _oenochoae_ and _hydriae_; also

How to Observe in Archaeology Various

Scholars believe that the silver objects had been hidden inside two kraters large bowls for mixing wine decorated with feet depicting theatrical masks, and that secreting them away probably kept them safe for posterity.

NYT > Home Page By ELISABETTA POVOLEDO 2010

Scholars believe that the silver objects had been hidden inside two kraters large bowls for mixing wine decorated with feet depicting theatrical masks, and that secreting them away probably kept them safe for posterity.

NYT > Home Page By ELISABETTA POVOLEDO 2010

Scholars believe that the silver objects had been hidden inside two kraters large bowls for mixing wine decorated with feet depicting theatrical masks, and that secreting them away probably kept them safe for posterity.

NYT > Global Home By ELISABETTA POVOLEDO 2010

Scholars believe that the silver objects had been hidden inside two kraters large bowls for mixing wine decorated with feet depicting theatrical masks, and that secreting them away probably kept them safe for posterity.

NYT > Home Page By ELISABETTA POVOLEDO 2010