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Storage jar (neck amphora) with Orestes and Elektra at the tomb of Agamemnon

about 335–320 B.C.
Place of ManufacturePaestum, Italy
Medium/TechniqueCeramic, Red Figure
Dimensions51.3 cm (20 3/16 in.)
Credit LineHenry Lillie Pierce Fund
Accession number99.540
On View
On view
ClassificationsVessels
ProvenanceBy 1898: with E. P. Warren (according to Warren's records: Bought by a friend at Nola where it was said to have been found. Bought April 24, 1898.); purchased by MFA from E. P. Warren, 1899, for $ 32,500.00 (this is the total price for MFA 99.338-99.542)
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