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  Worldvisitguide > Places > Metropolitan Museum... > Greek Antiquities > Greek art at the Seventh... > Faience aryballos in...
Faience aryballos in the form of two heads
Artist : Anonyme

Date : VIth century B.C.

Material : Earthenware
Acquisition : Bequest of Walter C. Baker (1971)
Fin de la période archaïque
Perfume vase
Item 99 on 197
Greek Antiquities
Container (Aryballe)

Vitrine : V05

Areas related
Grèce antique Est (Greece)


Description   

Said to be from Tarquinia, in Etruria. This perfume vase formed by two heads with Egyptianizing wiglike hair was probably made at Naukratis, a Greek trading station in the Nile Delta.
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