Talk:Krater

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Glazed on inside[edit]

I would like to suggest that kraters were glazed on the inside not only for "aesthetic reasons" but for a practical functional one, as well. Logic follows that unglazed ware would allow the liquid contents to seep thorough the non-vitrified surface of the earthenware vessel therefore it is likely that glaze was used to make the surface less permiable and more apt to hold liquid.

Agreed. I wouldn't want to drink from a clay vessel if it wasn't glazed, as anyone who has ever touched clay will agree. I edited that sentence. Alex.g 10:12, 11 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Mixed Wine[edit]

The book The Road to Eleusis discusses what was mixed together in ancient 'mixed wine'.

The Road To Eleusis: Unveiling the Secret of the Mysteries
by Carl A. Ruck, Albert Hofmann, R. Gordon Wasson, Jeremy Bigwood, Jonathan Ott, Carl A. P. Ruck, Huston Smith, Danny Staples
http://amazon.com/o/asin/091514820X

The book has no index. The index entries for coverage of 'mixed wine' would be:

Mixed Wine - main coverage: 51-52, 99-104
Mixed Wine - slight coverage: 47, 91, 93, 98, 106

-- MichaelSHoffman 05:05, 13 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

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"All bell kraters are black-figure."[edit]

What about File:Apulianizing Painter - Red-Figure Bell Krater with Three Women and Three Youths - Walters 482761 - Side A.jpg ? --Superzoulou (talk) 10:15, 8 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]

"Unpalatable and watery drink"[edit]

"Since such mixtures would produce an unpalatable and watery drink if applied to most wines made in the modern style, this practice of the ancients has led to speculation[by whom?] that ancient wines might have been vinified to a high alcoholic degree and sugar content" - this claim is speculation. Mixing wine with water is still common (ie.: spritzer). Usually with dry wines with low amount of residual sugars and high amount of acids. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 77.16.63.217 (talk) 18:35, 22 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Not only high-end luxury ware[edit]

At least in day-to-day archaeological lingo, "krater" seems to take a much wider meaning, including by far more modest-looking ceramic pots. The article is fixated only on the most collectible high-end types. Am I overlooking something, or is this indeed a major fault of this article? As an illustration: see here for what is labelled a krater in the Israel Museum. Their mistake, or the article's? If theirs, there are dozens of highly cited archaeology books which would have to be rewritten. Arminden (talk) 19:49, 24 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]

No, this is mainly interested in "fine pottery" not "coarse pottery". By all means add something to give a broader context. Johnbod (talk) 21:04, 24 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]