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Two-handled jar (Tyrrhenian neck-amphora)
Two-handled jar (Tyrrhenian neck-amphora)

Two-handled jar (Tyrrhenian neck-amphora)

the Timiades Painter
about 560 B.C.
Place of ManufactureAthens, Attica, Greece
FindspotVulci, Italy
Medium/TechniqueCeramic, Black Figure
DimensionsHeight: 39.4 cm (15 1/2 in.); diameter: 24.4 cm (9 5/8 in.)
Credit LineHenry Lillie Pierce Fund
Accession number98.916
On View
Not on view
ClassificationsVessels
Inscriptions"Herakles," "Andromache," "Pantariste," "Timiades," "Telamon," "Ainipe"ProvenanceBy 1889: Prince Torlonia Collection (excavated at Vulci, 1889: Gsell, Fouilles de Vulci, tomb no. XLIX); by date unknown: with Edward Perry Warren (according to Warren's records: [one of the] Contents incomplete of an early VIth Cent tomb at Vulci [containing MFA vases 98.901-909, 912-914, 916, 920]); 1898: purchased by MFA from Edward Perry Warren for $ 69,618.13 (this figure is the total price for MFA 98.641-98.940)