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Libation Bowl

Culture Greek
Title Libation Bowl (phiale mesomphalos)
Date 600–500 BCE
Medium Bronze
Dimensions Object: 2 × 6 11/16 in. (5.1 × 17 cm)
Overall: 2 × 6 11/16 in. (5.1 × 17 cm)
Credit Line Eskenazi Museum of Art, Indiana University
Accession Number 83.8

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1983, Indiana University Art Museum purchase from Robin Symes Limited, London, England

?–1983, with Robin Symes Limited, London, England[1]

Notes:

[1] Robin Symes (b. 1939) operated as an art and antiquities dealer in London from about 1970. Robin Symes Limited was founded in 1977 and dissolved in 2005.

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