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Two-handled jar (amphora) with struggle of Herakles and Apollo

about 510 B.C.
Place of ManufactureAthens, Attica, Greece
Medium/TechniqueCeramic, Red Figure
DimensionsHeight: 65 cm (25 9/16 in.)
Credit LineWilliam Francis Warden, Catharine Page Perkins, and James Funds
Accession number63.1515
On View
On view
ClassificationsVessels
Inscriptions"Herakles" (HERAKLEOS), and "Apollo" (APPOLLONOS). Between the figures is the inscription "beautiful" (KALOS). From Left to Right ΗΡΑΚΛΕΟΣ ΚΑΛΟΣ ΑΠΟΛΛΟΝΟΣ
Provenance1963, exhibited at Galerie Maspero, Paris [see note]; 1963, Münzen und Medaillen, A.G., Basel, Switzerland; 1963, sold by Münzen und Medaillen, A.G, to the MFA. (Accession date: October 17, 1963)

NOTE: Galerie Maspero, Le dessin dans l'art grec (March 27-June 15, 1963).
Group shot: 95.58, 00.628, 10.203
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