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Mixing bowl (bell krater)

about 440 B.C.
Place of ManufactureAthens, Attica, Greece
Medium/TechniqueCeramic, Red Figure
DimensionsHeight: 37.8 cm (14 7/8 in.)
Credit LineHenry Lillie Pierce Fund
Accession number00.346
On View
On view
ClassificationsVessels
InscriptionsSide A (From L to R) ΔΙΟΣ ΛVΣΑ ΕVΑΙΟΝ ΑΚΤΑΙΟΝ ΑΡΤΕΜΙΣ Graffito under foot: ΗΕ
ProvenanceAlessandro Castellani (b. 1823 - d. 1883), Rome; March 17-April 10, 1884, posthumous Castellani sale, Palazzo Castellani, Rome, lot 83. Michal Tyszkiewicz (b. 1828 - d. 1897), Rome [see note 1]. By 1900, Edward Perry Warren, Boston; 1900, sold by Warren to the MFA [see note 2]. (Accession Date: February 1, 1900)

NOTES:
[1] According to Warren's notes and Wilhelm Klein, Die griechischen Vasen mit Lieblingsinschriften (1898), p. 132.

[2] According to L. D. Caskey and J. D. Beazley, Attic Vase Paintings in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, II, no. 110, this comes from Vico Equense (NE of Sorrento).
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