{"id":370,"date":"2013-11-19T17:30:20","date_gmt":"2013-11-19T17:30:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/wonderful\/?p=370"},"modified":"2013-10-23T10:49:11","modified_gmt":"2013-10-23T10:49:11","slug":"vix-crater","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/wonderful\/major-theme\/ancient-empires\/vix-crater\/","title":{"rendered":"Vix Crater"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_303\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-303\" style=\"width: 257px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/File:Crat%C3%A8re_de_Vix_0023.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-303\" alt=\"The Vix Krater. Mus\u00e9e du Pays Ch\u00e2tillonnais. circa 530-510 BC. The Vix Krater is 1.63 m (5'4&quot;) in height. Peter Northover. CC-BY-SA-2.5.  \" src=\"http:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/wonderful\/files\/2013\/10\/WT_Wk7_VixCrater-CC-SA-BY-25-257x300.jpg\" width=\"257\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/wonderful\/files\/2013\/10\/WT_Wk7_VixCrater-CC-SA-BY-25-257x300.jpg 257w, https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/wonderful\/files\/2013\/10\/WT_Wk7_VixCrater-CC-SA-BY-25.jpg 515w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 257px) 100vw, 257px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-303\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Vix Krater. Mus\u00e9e du Pays Ch\u00e2tillonnais. circa 530-510 BC. The Vix Krater is 1.63 m (5&#8217;4&#8243;) in height. Peter Northover. CC-BY-SA-2.5.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The Vix crater (used for serving wine mixed with water) is the largest metal vessel surviving from the classical world. It was made about 540 BC, probably at Sparta in southern Greece, and was found in 1952 in the grave of an aristocratic woman in Burgundy in eastern France. It emphasises the social importance of alcoholic drink in many different societies. Its transport to France and final location in a grave also symbolises the varied ways that objects can be treated (recycled, curated, deposited) and the increasing divergence of \u2018classical\u2019 and \u2018barbarian\u2019 worlds in the first millennium BC.<\/p>\n<h2>Reading<\/h2>\n<p>Lewis, P. <i>A. \u00a0<\/i><em>Greek treasure in France<\/em>, at:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/1984\/04\/01\/travel\/a-greek-treasure-in-france.html?pagewanted=1\">http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/1984\/04\/01\/travel\/a-greek-treasure-in-france.html?pagewanted=1<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Joffroy, R. 1954. <em>Le tre\u0301sor de Vix, <\/em>Co\u0302te-d&#8217;Or. Paris: Presses universitaires de France.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Vix crater (used for serving wine mixed with water) is the largest metal vessel surviving from the classical world. It was made about 540 BC, probably at Sparta in southern Greece, and was found in 1952 in the grave of an aristocratic woman in Burgundy in eastern France. 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