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Pelike

Style resembles: The Hasselmann Painter
Greek
Classical Period
440–430 B.C.
Place of Manufacture: Greece, Attica, Athens

Medium/Technique Ceramic, Red Figure
Dimensions Height: 17 cm (6 11/16 in.); diameter: 13 cm (5 1/8 in.)
Credit Line Gift of Edward Perry Warren
Accession Number13.100
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsVessels

Catalogue Raisonné Caskey-Beazley, Attic Vase Paintings (MFA), no. 164.
DescriptionSide A: Man setting up an ithyphallic herm of Hermes, bearded, long haired with band around hair. In front of the herm, a low altar, and over it suspended, a votive tablet.
Side B: Youth in himation, to left, addressing the god.
ProvenanceBy 1912: with E. P. Warren (according to Warren's records: From Suessula.); gift of E. P. Warren to MFA, January 2, 1913