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Aryballos (perfume jar) in the form of Elpis (Hope) trapped in a pithos (jar)
Greek
Archaic Period
625–600 B.C.
Place of Manufacture: Greece, Boiotia, Thebes
Medium/Technique
Ceramic
Dimensions
Height: 11.6 cm (4 9/16 in.); diameter: 6 cm (2 3/8 in.).
Credit Line
Henry Lillie Pierce Fund
Accession Number01.8056
CollectionsAncient Greece and Rome
ClassificationsVessels
Catalogue Raisonné
Fairbanks, Vases (MFA), no. 539.
DescriptionIn form of a girl's head rising from seeming mouth of vase. Below neck triangles and lines. Right half of lip lost.
ProvenanceBy 1901: with Edward Perry Warren (according to Warren's records: Bought in Paris: said from Thebes.); purchased for MFA from Edward Perry Warren, December 1901