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Terracotta aryballos (oil flask)

Black-figure Nearchos · Aryballos · ca. 570 BCE

Aryballos. Greek, Attic. Archaic. Classification: Vases. Credit: Purchase, The Cesnola Collection, by exchange, 1926. Gallery 155.

Inscription

Inscription: CHAIREI | Inscription: HAOI LEI BRE | NEARCHOS | Named: DOPHIOS, TERPEKELOS, PHSOLAS | Signature: NEARCHOS EPOIESENME

Provenance

2 recorded events

Discovery

Attica, Greece

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First recorded

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Current location

Shape

Technique

Period

Archaic

Date

ca. 570 BCE

Culture

Greek, Attic

Painter

Attribution

Signed

Findspot

Attica, Greece

Museum

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Accession Number

26.49

Image Source

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