Kylix with Maenad

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CultureGreek (Rhodian)

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Kylix with Maenad

Date500–400 BC

Made inRhodes, Greece

MediumTerracotta with slip

Dimensions4 3/8 × 11 1/4 × 8 in. (11.1 × 28.6 × 20.3 cm)

Credit LineGift of Miss Annette Finnigan

Object number34.135

Not on view

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CERAMICS

Provenance[Theodore Zoumpoulakis, Athens]; purchased by Miss Annette Finnigan (1873–1940), Houston, by 1934; given to MFAH, 1934.
Exhibition History"Ten Centuries that Shaped the West," The Rice Institute for the Arts, Houston, October 15, 1970–January 3, 1971;
Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, February 3–April 1, 1971;
Witte Memorial Museum, San Antonio, May 16–July 11, 1971.

"Containers and Vessels" The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston October 21, 1989 - January 1990 Subsequent tour

Conservation Loan; Jane Gillies, Brooklyn, NY: Sept. 8, 2003. (OL.158)
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks

Inscribed: "Agustareta gave it to Thata".

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