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Oil flask (lekythos) depicting two women at a grave stele

about 440 B.C.
Place of ManufactureAthens, Attica, Greece
Medium/TechniqueCeramic, White Ground
DimensionsOverall: 32.7 x 10 cm (12 7/8 x 3 15/16 in.)
Credit LineGift of Edward Perry Warren
Accession number93.106
On View
On view
ClassificationsVessels
ProvenanceBy date unknown: with Mr. de Caix de Saint-Aymour in Paris (according to MFA Pottery Register: said to have been found in the island of Euboea, at Eretria); purchased from him by an Anonymous donor (Edward Perry Warren); gift of Edward Perry Warren to MFA, March 1893
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