Terracotta pointed aryballos (oil flask)

ca. 640–625 BCE

On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 171

This vase is representative of the mastery achieved by Corinthian artists of the seventh century B.C. There is utmost precision in both the potting and the execution of the scale pattern.

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Title: Terracotta pointed aryballos (oil flask)
Period: Protocorinthian
Date: ca. 640–625 BCE
Culture: Greek, Corinthian
Medium: Terracotta
Dimensions: H. 4 3/8 in. (11.1 cm)
Classification: Vases
Credit Line: Bequest of George D. Pratt, 1935
Object Number: 37.128.1
Curatorial Department: Greek and Roman Art

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