Mythological Figures

1st century

3 cm 3.2 cm

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This thick-walled ovoid container, its lid missing, has a separate, disklike base. On it are carved in low relief, now quite worn: a nude woman seated on a rock with a lyre; a kneeling, half-draped woman, possibly Hebe, cupbearer of the gods, pouring from a jug into a bowl wit...

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Michel Tyszkiewicz Collection [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Michel Tyszkiewicz Sale, Paris, June 8-10, 1898, lot 168 [as found at Thebes]; Michel Boy, Versailles [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Michel Boy Sale, Paris, May 24, 1905, lot 575; Dikran Kelekian (?), New York and Paris, 1905, by purchase; Henry Walters, Baltimore [date of acquisition unknown], by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
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bone
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pyxides

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