Aryballos (perfume flask) in the form of a helmeted head

On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 171

Archaic aryballos in the form of a warrior's head.

Said to be from Orvieto

Richter, Gisela M. A. 1953. Handbook of the Greek Collection. p. 43, Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press.

Timelines
Ancient Greece, 1000 B.C.–1 A.D.

Department

Object Type / Material

Geographic Location

Date / Era

Terracotta aryballos (oil flask)

Date: ca. 570 B.C. Medium: Terracotta Accession: 26.49 On view in:Gallery 155

Date: ca. 540–530 B.C. Medium: Terracotta Accession: 2010.147 On view in:Gallery 155

Date: 4th century B.C. Medium: Terracotta Accession: 41.162.46 On view in:Gallery 161

Date: mid-4th century B.C. Medium: Terracotta Accession: 25.190 On view in:Gallery 158

Date: late 10th–early 9th century B.C. Medium: Terracotta Accession: 30.118.1 On view in:Gallery 171