The themes on this volute krater suggest that it was employed in a funerary context. Volute kraters are often used for mixing water and wine, but they can also be used as funerary markers. The Vanth Group is refers to a group of several vases found in Orvieto, Italy and this vase’s specific Underworld imagery and artistic handling supports its attribution to the Group. ![]() In Etruscan religion, the goddess Vanth accompanied the deceased on their journey to the Underworld, but she also lends her name to the so-called Vanth Group of Etruscan vase painting. The scenes on the neck are separated by sets of doors, perhaps the doors to the Underworld. On both sides of the neck, a woman is shown seated and attended by two youths. ![]() A second youth stands behind the woman and hold a walking stick as he watches the action unfold. While one woman receives an embrace from the youth behind her, the other stands before Tinia filling his phiale (libation bowl) from her small oinochoe (wine jug). On the opposite side Tinia sits upon a draped surface holding his scepter crowned by an eagle, his attribute, with a woman on either side. and a disk foot the volute krater, with an egg-shaped body and handles that rise from the shoulder and curl in a volute (scroll-shaped form) well above the rim the calyx krater, the shape of which spreads out like the cup or calyx of a flower and the column krater. She wears only sandals and jewelry and holds a long stick in both hands, decorated at its ends with flowing fabric. On the neck, above the designs, (a) dentils in perspective, edged with white (b) laurel-wreath. ![]() On the lip, egg-moulding underneath, wave-pattern. Designs red, white, yellow, and purple, on black ground. They are led by a woman who gazes back at Tinia. Apulian pottery red-figured volute-krater (bowl for mixing wine and water). On this volute krater, the main motif is Tinia driving a biga (a two-wheeled chariot) drawn by two white horses in front of a columnar a funerary marker.
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