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Wine jar (oinochoe) with Apollo and Artemis

about 465 B.C.
Place of ManufactureAthens, Attica, Greece
Medium/TechniqueCeramic, Red Figure technique
DimensionsHeight: 34.8 cm (13 11/16 in.); diameter: 16.9 cm (6 5/8 in.)
Credit LineCatharine Page Perkins Fund
Accession number97.370
On View
Not on view
ClassificationsVessels
ProvenanceBy date unknown: with Edward Perry Warren (according to Warren's records: Bought in Athens. Said to come from Sunium.); 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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