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Mastos with Combat Scenes
(Ancient Greece )
This shape of drinking-cup is called a "mastos" and resembles a woman's breast. On the front, a soldier whose nudity signifies heroic status advances against two warriors dressed in short tunics; two heralds watch from either side. On the back, a nude warrior confronts a clothed one in a similar scene. Beneath the horizontal handle stands a siren, a mythical creature with a woman's head and a bird's body, whose powers included knowledge of the outcome of battles.
Provenance
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Sale, Catalogue des tableaux anciens, tableaux modernes, objets d'art et de haute curiosit'e, importantes tapisseries : composant la collection Engel-Gros, Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, 30 May-1 June 1921, no. 38 [illust.]; Dikran Kelekian, New York and Paris, 1921, by purchase; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1924, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
Exhibitions
| 2009-2011 | Heroes: Mortals and Myths in Ancient Greece. The Walters Art Museum, Baltimore; Frist Center for the Visual Arts, Nashville; San Diego Museum Of Art, San Diego; Alexander S. Onassis Public Benefit Foundation (USA), New York. |
Conservation
| Date | Description | Narrative |
|---|---|---|
| 7/27/1987 | Treatment | x-ray |
| 4/25/2001 | Treatment | other |
Geographies
Greece, Attica
(Place of Origin)
Italy, Vulci (Place of Discovery)
Measurements
H: 3 11/16 x W: 7 3/16 x Diam: 5 3/16 in. (9.3 x 18.2 x 13.2 cm)
Credit Line
Acquired by Henry Walters, 1924
Location in Museum
Accession Number
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In libraries, galleries, museums, and archives, an accession number is a unique identifier assigned to each object in the collection.
48.223