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Perfume vase (aryballos)

Perfume vase (aryballos)

Aryballos · about 675–650 B.C.
Ovoid body, wide flat lip, strap handle, small foot. Decoration in dull black with incised details: spiral hooks on lip, lotus and spiral pattern on shoulder. On front of body two sphinxes facing one another; on back of body two antelopes. On lower body a frieze of running dogs; rays on foot. Principal design: (A) two sphinxes, facing one another, (B), two antelopes. Figures considerably effaced. Below a band of running dogs.
Shape
Aryballos
Period
Middle Protocorinthian Period
Date
about 675–650 B.C.
Culture
Greek
Dimensions
H: 13.21 cm D: 8.89 cm
Medium
Ceramic
Findspot
Greece, Corinthia, Corinth
Museum
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Accession Number
95.13
Image Source
boston_mfa
Images courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art (CC0)