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Perfume vase (aryballos) signed "Pyrrhos, son of Agasileos, made me"
Greek or Greek, South Italian
Early Protocorinthian Period
about 700 B.C.
Place of Manufacture: Greece, Corinthia, Corinth
Medium/Technique
Ceramic
Dimensions
Height: 5 cm (1 15/16 in.)
Diameter: 4 cm (1 9/16 in.)
Diameter: 4 cm (1 9/16 in.)
Credit Line
Henry Lillie Pierce Fund
Accession Number98.900
CollectionsEurope, Ancient Greece and Rome
ClassificationsVessels
Catalogue Raisonné
Fairbanks, Vases (MFA), no. 393.
DescriptionPale red clay. Decorations in brown lines. Below shoulder on a broad band, the inscription. "Pyrrhos, son of Agasileos, made me".
Inscriptions"Pyrrhos, son of Agasileos, made me".
ΠΥΡΟΣΜΕΠΟΙΕΣΕΝΑΓΑΣΙΛΕFΟ
ΠΥΡΟΣΜΕΠΟΙΕΣΕΝΑΓΑΣΙΛΕFΟ
ProvenanceBy date unknown: with Edward Perry Warren (according to his records: sent from Athens); 1898: purchased by MFA from Edward Perry Warren for $ 69,618.13 (this figure is the total price for MFA 98.641-98.940)