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kra·ter

or cra·ter  (krā′tər)
n.
A wide, two-handled bowl used in ancient Greece and Rome for mixing wine and water.

[Greek krātēr; see kerə- in Indo-European roots.]
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kra•ter

or cra•ter

(ˈkreɪ tər)

n.
(in ancient Greece and Rome) a bowl in which water and wine were mixed.
[1855–60; < Greek; see crater]
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There was a Coalville band called Kraters Moon and we were all buddies.
Or will the future be dominated by "Knight's Kraters" and a council who have been sued into oblivion?
--1st Type: Urn burials--biconic urns and Greek kraters were used as cinerary containers--eposited in relatively superficial ditches excavated in the ground, without any protective super-structure --these correspond to the Late Iron Age ph ase of the necropolis (see below)--;
the other grave offering in Glasinatz included numerous kraters and bowls similar to those [unearthed] in the Philistine layers of Ashkelon." (10) Bronze Age burials at Dendra and Achaia in Greece have been unearthed containing the remains of Mycenaean warriors wearing bronze greaves and bronze armor in general that, in the words of Emily Vermeule, the great scholar of pre-Classical Greece, "agree with formulas in Homeric poetry." (11) Similar greaves were unearthed at Enkomi on Cyprus, dating from the same era, as well as at somewhat later sites on Sardinia.
Lougas, kamen erste [sup.14]C--Messungen zutage, die ein mutmassliches Alter des Kraters zwischen 800 und 400 BC (unkal.) anzeigen sollten.
Kraters of many special types for virtually every occasion, and sculptures of the gods and humans associated with cultural aesthetics, musical events, and the life of the psyche and spirit.
Secondly, as hinted above, the volume is filled with fine illustrative photos of artistic artifacts of every kind: the actual physical appearance of all the musical instruments, the furniture and tableware of the symposia, amphora with articulate presentations of the people and things of musical performances, Kraters of many special types for virtually every occasion, and the sculptures of the gods and humans associated with cultural aesthetics, musical events, and the life of the psyche and spirit.
'Three Apulian Kraters in Berlin', Jahrbuch der Berliner Museen 12, 153-190.
The question now arises that if the IHCP is related to teruma, why are other vessels that could in theory serve as receptacles for such an offering (bowls, kraters, jugs, storage jars, etc.) not marked as well?
For sensible men I prepare only three kraters: one for health (which they drink first), the second for love and pleasure, and the third for sleep.
(46.) The Beazley Archive lists only 12 red-figure bell kraters (many fragmentary, with or without evidence of lugs) from the period from 500 to 450, among 1,587 red-figure bell kraters in the entire archive.