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Oil flask (lekythos) with Apollo
Greek
Classical Period
about 470–460 B.C.
Place of Manufacture: Greece, Attica, Athens
Medium/Technique
Ceramic, Red Figure
Dimensions
Height: 39.1 cm (15 3/8 in.)
Credit Line
Catharine Page Perkins Fund
Accession Number95.45
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsAncient Greece and Rome
ClassificationsVessels
Catalogue Raisonné
Caskey-Beazley, Attic Vase Paintings (MFA), no. 088.
DescriptionApollo, full front, face to left, extends a phiale with right hand, and holds a large lyre in his left. To left of his face the Greek inscription: "handsome" (ka[l]os) and left of his body: "Hippon is handsome" (HIPPON KALOS). Part of the lower half of the figure missing. Vase somewhat restored.
InscriptionsLeft of face: ΚΑ[Λ]ΟΣ
Left of body: ΗΙΠΠΟΝ ΚΑΛΟΣ
Left of body: ΗΙΠΠΟΝ ΚΑΛΟΣ
ProvenanceBy date unknown: with Edward Perry Warren (according to his records: found in the same grave, Greece, with 95.43 and 95.44; according to Caskey-Beazley, no. 89: from Thebes); 1895: purchased by MFA from Edward Perry Warren for $ 29,857.37 (this figure is the total price for MFA 95.9-95.174)