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Two-handled cup with male couples

Greek
Late Archaic Period
about 520 B.C.
Place of Manufacture: Greece, Boiotia

Medium/Technique Ceramic, Black Figure
Dimensions Overall: 11 x 19 x 13.5 cm (4 5/16 x 7 1/2 x 5 5/16 in.)
Credit Line Gift of Edward Perry and Fiske Warren
Accession Number08.292
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsVessels

DescriptionSides (A) and (B): A man titillating a boy, who responds, flanked by grape vines with large clusters of grapes. On one side, over the figures, KALOS (handsome); on the other KA...

Condition: Several parts missing, including the head of the man in one group.
Inscriptions"Kalos" (Handsome)
ProvenanceBy date unknown: with Edward Perry Warren; gift of Edward Perry and Fiske Warren to MFA, May 1908