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Jar (stamnos) fragments showing Demeter, Persephone, and Triptolemos

about late 5th century B.C.
Place of ManufactureAthens, Attica, Greece
Medium/TechniqueCeramic, Red Figure
DimensionsLength x width (fragment a): 9.4 x 6 cm (3 11/16 x 2 3/8 in.)
Height x width (fragment b): 15.5 x 19.5 cm (6 1/8 x 7 11/16 in.)
Length (fragment c): 8 cm (3 1/8 in.)
Credit LineBartlett Collection—Museum purchase with funds from the Francis Bartlett Donation of 1900
Accession number03.842a-c
On View
Not on view
ClassificationsVessels
ProvenanceBy 1903: with Edward Perry Warren (according to Warren's records: Bought in Rome.); purchased by MFA from Edward Perry Warren, March 24, 1903
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