Two-handled jar (amphora) depicting Herakles and Apollo (side A) and Herakles and the Nemean Lion (side B)
510–500 B.C.
Place of ManufactureAthens, Attica, Greece
Medium/TechniqueCeramic, Black Figure
DimensionsHeight: 42 cm (16 9/16 in.)
Credit LineFrederick Brown Fund
Accession number1970.69
On View
Not on viewClassificationsVessels
Collections
ProvenanceNovember 29, 1965, anonymous (unknown English dealer) sale, Sotheby's, London, lot 134, sold for £190 to R. Hollest. 1967, D. J. Crowther, Ltd., London [see note 1]; 1967, sold by Crowther to Charles S. Lipson, Mayflower Coin Auctions, Boston; between 1967 and 1969, sold by Lipson to George Warton, San Francisco [see note 2]; 1970, sold by George Warton to the MFA. (Accession Date: March 11, 1970)
NOTES:
[1] D. J. Crowther, Ltd., Coins of the World, no. 1 (1967), cat. no. 8. [2] First lent to the MFA May 2, 1969.
NOTES:
[1] D. J. Crowther, Ltd., Coins of the World, no. 1 (1967), cat. no. 8. [2] First lent to the MFA May 2, 1969.
The Group of the Oxford Lid
about 550 B.C.
