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Skyphos, Eos carrying off Tithonos; A: goddess running off with youth who holds a large lyre, B: two youths in attitudes of alarm (one holds a double flute)
Diameter: 0.21 m
Height: 0.175 m
Width: 0.31 m
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Method of acquisition: Loan
(1991)
Classical
Production date:
470 BC
Red-figured
Accession number: Loan Ant.103.19
Primary reference Number: 89332
Stable URI
Owner or interested party: The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department: Antiquities
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The Fitzwilliam Museum (2022)
"Skyphos"
Web page available at: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/89332 Accessed: 2022-06-26 18:33:26
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