CALICE VASE or Goblet Krater from POMPEII, ITALY
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CALICE VASE or Goblet Krater, from POMPEII, ITALY: Antiquity Reproduction CALICE VASE (called Goblet Krater, from Greek "to mix", was used to mix wine and water, the usual beverage of the Greeks. The figures depicted on the vase are: Heracles (Hercules) killing Nessus and Dyonysus with a Bacchante (followers of Bacchus). This vase is hand made of red clay with attic black figures and designs and fired in a wood oven. This is an Antiquity Reproduction. This CALICE VASE is about 16 3/4" high and at it widest about 13 across the top" across the top of the bowl and about 12" wide at the handles. BACKGROUND ON FIGURES: As described in Certificate NESSUS AND HERACLES: Nessus was a famous Centaur, son of Issius and Nefele, killed by Heracles (Hercules), son of Zeus. Heracles was in love with Deianeira, daughter of the king Oeneus of Calydon and he won her for his wife by overthrowing Achelous. Heracles wished to take her to his own home but, to do so, they had to cross the river Evenus which has filled its broad bed with flood waters. The Centaur Nessus, who was roaming the river valley, offered to carry Deianeira across whilst Heracles swam. According to the legend, Nessus, true to his Centaur nature, tried to violate DYONISUS/BACCHUS: God of wine, drinking, of all pleasures and fertility. Son of Zeus and Semele. Described by the poets
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