Oil flask (lekythos) with a man and a woman holding a funerary basket at a grave
about 440–430 B.C.
Place of ManufactureAthens, Attica, Greece
Medium/TechniqueCeramic, White Ground
DimensionsHeight: 38.3 cm (15 1/16 in.)
Credit LineCatharine Page Perkins Fund
Accession number96.721
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ProvenanceBy date unknown: with Edward Perry Warren (according to his letter of Feb. 9, 1901: bought in Brussels from a man named Orphanides upon whose statement that it came from Athens no reliance is to be placed); September 9, 1896: purchased by MFA from Edward Perry Warren
Thanatos Painter
about 450–440 B.C.
