Talk:Krater

Glazed on inside
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)

Mixed Wine
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)

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"All bell kraters are black-figure."
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)

"Unpalatable and watery drink"
"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)

Not only high-end luxury ware
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)
 * 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)