Handle and Two Attachments for a Situla (Wine Bucket)
3rd Century BCE
Dimensions
Handle: 22 cm (8 11/16 in.); spouted face attachment: 4.1 x 5.7 x 5.7 cm; human face attachment 3.5 x 5.7 x 3.0 cm
Provenance
{Hesperia Art, Philadelphia, PA] (1969), sold; to the Alice Corinne McDaniel Collection, Department of the Classics, Harvard University (1969-2012), transfer; to the Harvard Art Museums 2012.
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