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Two-handled jar (amphora) depicting Athena and Apollo

about 450 B.C.
Place of ManufactureAthens, Attica, Greece
Medium/TechniqueCeramic, Red Figure technique
DimensionsHeight: 51.4 cm (20 1/4 in.); diameter: 32.5 cm (12 13/16 in.)
Credit LineCatharine Page Perkins Fund
Accession number96.719
On View
Not on view
ClassificationsVessels
ProvenanceBy date unknown: with Edward Perry Warren (according to Warren's records: Perhaps found at Nola.); purchased by MFA from Edward Perry Warren, October 1896
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