Falaieff bell-kraters from ancient Corinth

A rare shape in Greek pottery of the 4th century B.C. is the bell-krater of so-called Falaieff type. Red-figure and black-glaze examples made in Athen s have long been known, but this article presents fragments from the Americ an excavations in ancient Corinth that represent a contemporary local coars eware version. Catalogues of the Athenian and Corinthian pieces are followe d by a discussion of the chronology, based particularly upon deposits at Co rinth, and by an examination of the relationship between the two series. An tecedents of the Falaieff krater in Etruscan Bucchero and possible function s for the shape are suggested in the final section.