Column Krater (mixing bowl for wine and water): Lyre Player in Female Dress
active c. 470 BCE
Manner of The Pig Painter
Greek
A single heavily-bearded man facing right playing the lyre with a plectrum. He wears a long chiton with a mantle draped over his shoulder and a headdress with a wreath. His clothing style belongs to a category of similarly dressed men called “Anakreontic Dancers,” after the poet Anakreon who describes men dressing in this manner.
Terracotta
Classical period