Myron’s bronze group sculpture of the story of Athena and Marsyas was often copied, as on this large stone krater, which helps us to see the composition and the placement of the lost arms.

A krater was a large vase used for wine. At a symposium, a meeting involving drinking, water was mixed with wine in a large krater, and transferred to smaller cups for drinking. Being a satyr, Marsyas was an attendant of Dionysos the god of wine