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Attic Red-figure Kylix: Woman Walking towards an Altar Carrying a Phiale

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Greek (active ca. 475 -450 BC)
Attic Red-figure Kylix: Woman Walking towards an Altar Carrying a Phiale, c. 480-470 BC
Vessel
Greek
,
5th century BC
Classical period, Early, c. 500-450 BC
Creation Place: Athens (Attica)
Terracotta
with handles: 8.8 x 25.6 x 19 cm (3 7/16 x 10 1/16 x 7 1/2 in.)
Beazley Archive Database #209939
Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Gift of E. P. Warren, Esquire
, 1927.155
Department of Ancient and Byzantine Art & Numismatics
,
Division of Asian and Mediterranean Art
Bibliography
Gunnel Ekroth, "Why (not) Paint an Altar? A Study of Where, When and Why Altars Appear on Attic Red-figure Vases", The world of Greek vases. Colloquium at the Danish Academy, Rome, 13-15 Jan 2005, ed. Vinnie Norskov, Edizioni Quasar (Rome, 2009), p. 96, fig. 5

Exhibition History
Fragments of Antiquity: Drawing Upon Greek Vases, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 03/15/1997 - 12/28/1997
HAA132e The Ideal of the Everyday in Greek Art (S427) Spring 2012, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 01/31/2012 - 05/12/2012