Two-handled jar (neck amphora) depicting a herm in front of an altar
470–460 B.C.
Place of ManufactureAthens, Attica, Greece
Medium/TechniqueCeramic, Red Figure technique
DimensionsHeight: 33.5 cm (13 3/16 in.); diameter: 15.7 cm (6 3/16 in.)
Credit LineMuseum purchase with funds donated by Landon T. Clay
Accession number68.163
On View
On viewClassificationsVessels
Collections
ProvenanceMay 6, 1967, sale (auction 34), Münzen and Medaillen, Basel, lot 164; 1968, Münzen und Medaillen and André Emmerich Gallery, New York (joint ownership) [see note]; 1968, sold by André Emmerich Gallery to the MFA. (Accession Date: May 8, 1968)
NOTE: Included in the exhibition "Art of the Ancients: Greeks, Etruscans and Romans," André Emmerich Gallery, New York, organized in cooperation with Münzen und Medaillen (February 7 - March 13, 1968), no. 34.
NOTE: Included in the exhibition "Art of the Ancients: Greeks, Etruscans and Romans," André Emmerich Gallery, New York, organized in cooperation with Münzen und Medaillen (February 7 - March 13, 1968), no. 34.
the Phiale Painter (also known as the Boston Phiale Painter)
about 430 B.C.
the Brygos Painter
about 480 B.C.
the Painter of the Florence Pursuit
late fifth century B.C.
