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Fragment of an Attic Red-figure Calyx-Krater, side A: fight, on left edge, rim of shield in three-quarters view, then mid-scabbard, cloak or chitoniskos folds of figure to left(?) (scabbard at left hip)
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Department of Ancient and Byzantine Art & Numismatics
Dr. J. Robert Guy Oxford England (?-1994) sold; to Peter Sharrar New York (1994-1995) sold: to Harvard University Art Museums.
Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum Purchase through the generosity of Jonathan H. Kagan Mr. and Mrs. Evangelos Karvounis Ian M. Watson McLaughlin Nicholas S. Zoullas and the Florence Gould Foundation and the Alpheus Hyatt Purchasing Director's Discretionary and Marian H. Phinney Funds
Title: Fragment of an Attic Red-figure Calyx-Krater, side A: fight, on left edge, rim of shield in three-quarters view, then mid-scabbard, cloak or chitoniskos folds of figure to left(?) (scabbard at left hip)
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