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Faience double-spouted vessel in the form of a knelling woman holding a jar
Faience double-spouted vessel in the form of a knelling woman holding a jar
Artist : Anonymous

Model : Grenouille

Date : approx. between 620 and 580 B.C.

Material : Earthenware
Acquisition : Various donors (1996)
Période Orientalisante ou haut archaïsme
Item 92 on 197
Greek Antiquities
Container (Vaisselle à double goulots)

Vitrine : V05

Area related
Grèce antique Est (Greece)



Description   

The woman wears a heavy Egyptianizing wig, and indications of a leopard skin run down her back. A pal capital on her head serves as one spout, and the open-mouthed frog perched on the jar serves as the other. Most vessels of this type have been found on Rhodes.
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