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Thracian warriors charging 

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A Thracian warrior on horseback and a second who runs on foot are ready to attack to the right. Both are youths and wear the Thracian military costume: zeira (woolen coat) with heavy embattled designs fastened on chest, short chiton, endromides (high leather boots) and alopeke (fox fur cap). They hold spears in their right hand. The foremost holds pelte (a crescent-shaped shield of wicker-work, indicated on the inside by crossed diagonals in brown) in his left hand. Between them hangs probably a bucranion (skull of an ox) covered with a festooned taenia.


Caption Attic red-figure column krater, with a depiction of Thracian warriors charging

Mythic people Cicones (Mythical people), Edonians (Mythical people)

Type Clay object

Origin Attic workshop

Current position British Museum, London

Index number 1824,0501.14

Dating 440 BC

Notes

column krater | British Museum

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