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Statuette of Tityros

Greek
Archaic Period
Middle to late 5th century B.C.

Medium/Technique Terracotta
Dimensions Height: 13 cm (5 1/8 in.)
Credit Line Museum purchase with funds donated by contribution
Accession Number01.7777
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsSculpture

DescriptionTityros, half reclining. Goat feet, horns, pointed ears, arms raised as if fluting, a rhyton on the rock before him. Greenish yellow and red on rock; pale blue on horns. The end of the left horn is gone. Other breaks.
ProvenanceBy 1901: with E. P. Warren (according to Warren's records: Bought in Boston: seems certainly Boeotian.); purchased by MFA from E. P. Warren, December 1901