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Fragment of a flask (askos) depicting a burial mound
Greek
Late Archaic Period
500–490 B.C.
Place of Manufacture: Greece, Attica, Athens
Medium/Technique
Ceramic, Red Figure
Dimensions
Height: 9 cm (3 9/16 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of Edward Perry Warren
Accession Number13.169
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsAncient Greece and Rome
ClassificationsVessels
DescriptionThis flask shows the tomb of a hero. The burial mound is covered with fillets, jumping weights, a discus, and javelins with throwing cords, which presumably are offerings from funerary games. An warrior, shown down to the thighs and armed with helmet, corselet, shield and spear, emerges from the mound.
Top of a fragmentary askos, whose edge has been filed down to make a regular circle.
Top of a fragmentary askos, whose edge has been filed down to make a regular circle.
ProvenanceBy 1912: with Edward Perry Warren (according to Warren's records: from Cerveteri); gift of Edward Perry Warren to MFA, January 2, 1913