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Drinking cup (kylix) with ribbed bowl and woman dismounting from a horse

Greek
Classical Period
about 400 B.C.
Place of Manufacture: Greece, Attica, Athens

Medium/Technique Ceramic, Red Figure
Dimensions Height: 9.6 cm (3 3/4 in.)
Credit Line Henry Lillie Pierce Fund
Accession Number00.354
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsVessels

Catalogue Raisonné Caskey-Beazley, Attic Vase Paintings (MFA), no. 175.
DescriptionInterior: A woman dismounting from a horse. Repaired with some restoration. To the right of her head the Greek inscription: "Sparta" (S[P]ARTA)
InscriptionsΣ[Π]ΑΡΤΗ
ProvenanceBy 1900: with E. P. Warren (according to Warren's records: Tanagra); purchased by MFA from E. P. Warren, February 1900