Our Odessey symbol is adapted from this krater or drinking cup. It is signed by Exekias, a potter and painter working in Athens in about 530 BC, and shows the god Dionysios sailing with a load of grapes in a barque from which miraculously grows a grape vine. It was found in the Etruscan city of Vulci in Italy and is thus part of the abundant evidence of lively trade in the ancient Mediterranean. It is now in the Staatliche Antikensammlungen of the Bayerisches Staatsministerium für Wissenschaft, Forschung und Kunst in Munich.
