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Mixing bowl (column krater) depicting Medea and Pelias

about 470 B.C.
Country of Origin, for CustomsGreece
Place of ManufactureAthens, Attica, Greece
Medium/TechniqueCeramic, Red Figure
DimensionsOverall: 37.5 x x 33 x 38.5 cm (14 3/4 x 13 x 15 3/16 in.)
Credit LineMary S. and Edward J. Holmes Fund
Accession number1970.567
On View
Not on view
ClassificationsVessels
InscriptionsSide A: ΚΑLΟS on the cauldron Side B: inscription?
ProvenanceBy 1969, Robert E. Hecht, Jr., Boston; 1970, sold by Robert Hecht to the MFA. (Accession Date: December 16, 1970)

NOTE: According to Hecht, he he had purchased the vase in Munich from Prince Wohlmut von Eisenstein, whose family had owned it since 1740. This information has not been verified.