Two-handled jar (amphora) depicting the Judgment of Paris and the recovery of Helen
about 510–500 B.C.
Place of ManufactureAthens, Attica, Greece
Country of Origin, for CustomsGreece
Medium/TechniqueCeramic, Black Figure
DimensionsOverall: 44 x 14.6 cm (17 5/16 x 5 3/4 in.)
Other (H): 27.7cm (10 7/8in.)
Other (H): 27.7cm (10 7/8in.)
Credit LineSeth Kettell Sweetser Fund
Accession number60.790
On View
On viewClassificationsVessels
Collections
ProvenanceBy 1847: Rome art market (published in F. W. E. Gerhard, Auserlesene griechische Vasenbilder, III, Berlin, 1847, pl. 171); date unknown: Lord Elgin Collection, Broomhall, Fifeshire, Scotland; date unknown: London, Spink and Son (recorded by J. D. Beazley in ABV, Oxford, 1956, p. 691, no. 78bis as: London Market-Spink); by date unknown with Münzen und Medaillen A.G., Malzgasse 25, Basel, Switzerland; June 8, 1960: purchased by MFA from Münzen und Medaillen A.G. for $ 1,200.00
Group of Munich 1501
510–500 B.C.
The Group of the Oxford Lid
about 550 B.C.