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Black-glaze Pelike
View through Harvard Museums
Department of Ancient and Byzantine Art & Numismatics
Gift of the Estate of Theodore Dwight through Harriet Amory to the Department of the Classics 1920.
Transfer from the Department of the Classics 1977.
Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum Transfer from the Department of the Classics Harvard University from the Estate of Theodore Dwight through Miss Harriet S. Amory
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