Box (pyxis) and lid with Herakles stealing the Delphic tripod
about 550 B.C.
Place of ManufactureAthens, Attica, Greece
Medium/TechniqueCeramic, Black Figure
DimensionsHeight: 9.9 cm (3 7/8 in.)
Credit LineGift of Horace L. Mayer
Accession number61.1256a-b
On View
On viewClassificationsVessels
Collections
ProvenanceBy date unknown: in the Sperling Collection (whose vases were all said to come from the collection of Baron Van der Elst who was in the Belgian Embassy in Rome and prior to that in Athens) (published by H. Payne, Necrocorinthia, 1931, p. 292 as: formerly in a dealer's shop in Athens); 1956: published by J. D. Beazley in Attic Black-Figure Vase-Painters, p. 616, as New York market; February 1959: purchased from Sperling by Horace L. Mayer (loaned by Horace L. Mayer to MFA as 10.59); gift of Horace L. Mayer to MFA, December 1961; accessioned by MFA January 10, 1962
Group of Munich 1501
510–500 B.C.
