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Drinking cup (kylix) depicting Herakles wrestling the Nemean lion

Drinking cup (kylix) depicting Herakles wrestling the Nemean lion

about 530–510 B.C.
Place of ManufactureAthens, Attica, Greece
Medium/TechniqueCeramic, Black Figure
DimensionsHeight: 7.7 cm (3 1/16 in.); diameter: 16 cm (6 5/16 in.)
Credit LineGift of Messrs. Robert E. Hecht, Jr. and George Allen
Accession number60.1172
On View
Not on view
ClassificationsVessels
ProvenanceBy date unknown: with Robert E. Hecht, Jr. and George Allen (said to come from Cervetri); gift of Robert E. Hecht, Jr. and George Allen to MFA, October 13, 1960; the fragment on loan from the Louvre is from the Campana Collection.
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