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Mixing bowl (calyx-krater)

about 340–330 B.C.
Place of ManufactureApulia, Italy
Medium/TechniqueCeramic, Red Figure
DimensionsHeight: 63.5 cm (25 in.); diameter (rim): 58.5 (23 in.)
Credit LineMuseum purchase with funds donated by Esther D. Anderson, Edith and Harvey Bundy, Suzanne Dworsky, Leon Levy, Josephine L. Murray, Maurice Tempelsman, Emily T. and Cornelius C. Vermeule, Shelby White, Florence and Leonard Wolsky and the John H. and Ernestine A. Payne Fund
Accession number1987.53
On View
On view
ClassificationsVessels
InscriptionsFrom Left to Right ΑΙΓΙΣΘΟΣ ΘΥΕΣΤΗΣ ΑΔΡΑΣΤΟΣ ΠΕΛΟΠΕΙΑ ΑΜΦΙΘΕΑ Above: ΣΙΚΥΟΝ
Provenance1986: published by A. D. Trendall in H. A. G. Brijder, et al., eds., Enthousiasmos (1986), p. 162, as: on the American market; 1986: with Fritz Bürki and Son, Zurich, Switzerland; purchased by MFA from Fritz Bürki and Son, February 25, 1987
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