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Title:Terracotta plate
Period:Archaic
Date:ca. 510 BCE
Culture:Greek, Attic
Medium:Terracotta; black-figure
Dimensions:diameter 4 7/8in. (12.4cm)
Classification:Vases
Credit Line:Gift of Alastair Bradley Martin, 1971
Object Number:1971.258.2
Inscription: "Melo is fair. karone is fair. the boy is fair."
[Until 1926, with Michel Roussos, Athens and Paris]; [October 1926, acquired by Joseph Brummer, purchased from M. Roussos]; [October 1926-July 1948, with J. Brummer, New York (P3631)]; July 1948, acquired by Alastair Bradley Martin, purchased from J. Brummer; 1948-1971, collection of A.B. Martin, New York; acquired in 1971, gift of A.B. Martin.
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Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae (LIMC). 1981. Vol. 1: Aara-Aphlad. "Amazones," p. 631, no. 730, pl. 518, Zürich: Artemis Verlag.
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