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Drinking cup (kylix)
Greek
Archiac Period
about 540 B.C.
Place of Manufacture: Greece, Boiotia
Medium/Technique
Ceramic
Dimensions
Height: 7 cm (2 3/4 in.)
Credit Line
Harriet Otis Cruft Fund
Accession Number64.981
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CollectionsAncient Greece and Rome
ClassificationsVessels
DescriptionAbove a broad band around the exterior, forty-three surviving snakes. The scales of the snakes are incised. Glazed circles on interior and bottom of foot. Red and black glaze on light buff clay. Lip, "shoulder", and foot incised, or reserved with a groove, or molded.
ProvenanceBy 1963: with Theodoros Zoumboulakis in Athens; by 1964 with Byron Th. Zoumboulakis, 8 Place de la Taconnerie, Geneva, Switzerland; purchased by MFA from Byron Th. Zoumboulakis, June 8, 1964