#psykter

It’s likely that snow-cooled water would have been put inside the psykter and it placed inside a krater of wine, to cool it. There’s not a lot that survive - they went out of fashion, not being that practical, apparently - but I love the idea of them bobbing on the liquid surface with decorations like these dolphin riders!

Pottery Throwdown is already a great programme, connecting many of us with pottery, an age-old practice almost ubiquitous with humanity, in a way that most people don’t get to any more, and I’m always reminding my Classics students to watch it to give them a better understanding of the vessels they’re studying!

Douris as a painter (signed) 

Drunk cavorting sileni. Detail from an Attic red-figured psykter.

between circa 500 and circa 490 BC

London, British Museum

Acquerello di Lidano Giorgi ispirato ad uno psykter del vasaio Eufronios.

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Terracotta Psykter, attributed to Oltos, ca 520-510 BCE