Advanced Search 
View: Side A
Bowl with spout and three handles
Greek
late 5th century B.C.
Place of Manufacture: Greece, Boiotia, Thebes
Medium/Technique
Ceramic, Black Figure
Dimensions
Height: 13 cm (5 1/8 in.); diameter: 17.6 cm (6 15/16 in.)
Credit Line
Henry Lillie Pierce Fund
Accession Number01.8070
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsAncient Greece and Rome
ClassificationsVessels
Catalogue Raisonné
Fairbanks, Vases (MFA), no. 567.
DescriptionBoiotian (Kabirion); The myth of Perseus and Medusa.
Side A: Two Poseidons, Gogons, headless Medusa, Pegasus.
Side B: Two Perseuses, Athena. Athena with spear, crested helmet, and shield. The inscription "ASPIS" (shield), on shield. Modern incisions on heads of Poseidon and Perseus, their baskets, the head of Athena, and her shield. Base missing.
Side A: Two Poseidons, Gogons, headless Medusa, Pegasus.
Side B: Two Perseuses, Athena. Athena with spear, crested helmet, and shield. The inscription "ASPIS" (shield), on shield. Modern incisions on heads of Poseidon and Perseus, their baskets, the head of Athena, and her shield. Base missing.
InscriptionsΑ^ΘΑΝ
ProvenanceBy 1901: with Edward Perry Warren (according to Warren's records: Bought in Athens.); purchased for MFA from Edward Perry Warren, December 1901