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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
CollectionsAncient Greece and Rome
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