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Drinking cup (kantharos)
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Drinking cup (kantharos)

About A.D. 1 to 30
Place of ManufactureCentral Italy
Medium/TechniqueCeramic, thin-walled ware
DimensionsH x Diameter (with handles) 7.6 x 15.6 Diameter cm (3 x 6 1/8 Diameter in.)
Credit LineGift of Mr. and Mrs. William de Forest Thomson, by exchange
Accession number2000.1014
On View
Not on view
ClassificationsVessels
ProvenanceBy the 1970s: said to have been in the C.A. collection, Geneva, formed in the 1970s; by 2000: with Jean-David Cahn AG, auction 2, Hotel Hilton Basel, Salon des Nations, Aeschengraben 31, Basel, Switzerland, June 26, lot 123; purchased at Cahn auction by Royal-Athena Galleries, 153 East 57th Street, New York, N.Y. 10022; purchased by MFA from Royal-Athena Galleries, December 13, 2000
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Beaker
about 150–50 B.C.
Thin-walled cup (cantharus)
Thin-walled cup (cantharus)
A.D. 14–50
Ribbed bowl
Ribbed bowl
Late 1st century B.C.–1st century A.D.
Jug fragment
Jug fragment
about 2600 B.C.
Body of a pitcher (lagynos)
Body of a pitcher (lagynos)
Caius Lapius
170–130 B.C.
Jug
Jug
about 700–475 B.C.
Two-handled jug
Two-handled jug
about 600–475 B.C.
Image Not Available for Jug with twisted handle
Jug with twisted handle
about 700–600 B.C.
Bucchero pitcher (trefoil oinochoe)
Bucchero pitcher (trefoil oinochoe)
about 550 B.C.
Jug
Jug
Jug
Jug
Cup
Cup