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Early relief ware two-handled cup (scyphus or cantharus)

(Central Italian)
110–80 B.C.
Place of ManufactureOcriculo, Umbria, Italy
Medium/TechniqueCeramic, Italo-Megarian Relief Ware, mould made
DimensionsHeight: 7.3 cm (2 7/8 in.); diameter: 11.6 cm (4 9/16 in.)
Credit LineHenry Lillie Pierce Fund
Accession number99.542
On View
Not on view
ClassificationsVessels
ProvenanceBy 1899: with Edward Perry Warren; purchased by MFA from Edward Perry Warren, 1899, for $ 32,500.00 (this is the total price for MFA 99.338-99.542)
Body of a pitcher (lagynos)
Caius Lapius
170–130 B.C.
Early relief ware bowl
Caius Popilius
110–80 B.C.
Early relief ware bowl
Caius Popilius
110–80 B.C.
Oil flask (aryballos)
6th century B.C.
Fragment of bowl
2nd century B.C.
Head of a male statuette
332 B.C.–A.D. 364
David Hockney
1976
Eduardo Paolozzi
1967