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Mixing bowl (calyx krater) depicting dueling scenes from the Trojan war

about 490–480 B.C.
Place of ManufactureAthens, Attica, Greece
Medium/TechniqueCeramic, Red Figure
DimensionsHeight: 45.2 cm (17 13/16 in.); diameter: 51/3 cm (20 3/16 in.)
Credit LineCatharine Page Perkins Fund
Accession number97.368
On View
On view
ClassificationsVessels
InscriptionsFigures labeled: Side A: ATHENAIA, AXILEUS, MELANIPPOS, MEIMNON, EIOS, On shield: "Lacheas is handsome" (LAXEAS KALOS) Side B: ATHENAIA, DIOMEDES, AINEAS, APHRODITE (in retrograde)
ProvenanceSaid to be from Vulci and to have been found at Canino in 1889 (according to L. D. Caskey and J. D. Beazley, Attic Vase Paintings in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, no. 70); by 1891: Count Michel Tyszkiewicz Collection (said to have been purchased in Trieste); by date unknown: with Edward Perry Warren; 1897: purchased by MFA from Edward Perry Warren for $ 25,000.00 (this figure is the total price for MFA 97.285-97.442 and 97.1104)
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