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Perfume vase (aryballos) depicting lions and rams
Greek
Middle Protocorinthian Period
About 675–650 B.C.
Place of Manufacture: Greece, Corinthia, Corinth
Medium/Technique
Ceramic
Dimensions
Height: 6.5 cm (2 9/16 in.)
Diameter: 3.7 cm (1 7/16 in.)
Diameter: 3.7 cm (1 7/16 in.)
Credit Line
Henry Lillie Pierce Fund
Accession Number99.511
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsAncient Greece and Rome
ClassificationsVessels
Catalogue Raisonné
Fairbanks, Vases (MFA), no. 399.
DescriptionMiniature aryballos with orientalizing iconography. The shoulder frieze has alternating palmettes and lotuses. The largest band on the belly features facing lions. One appears to be roaring at the other. The other side shows two facing rams. The lower frieze shows rosettes, and the lowest frieze has black rays.
ProvenanceBy 1897/8: with E. P. Warren (according to Warren's records: Bought in Athens 1897-8.); purchased by MFA from E. P. Warren, 1899, for $ 32,500.00 (this is the total price for MFA 99.338-99.542)