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Perfume vase (aryballos) signed "Pyrrhos, son of Agasileos, made me"

Greek or Greek, South Italian
Early Protocorinthian Period
about 700 B.C.
Place of Manufacture: Greece, Corinthia, Corinth

Medium/Technique Ceramic
Dimensions Height: 5 cm (1 15/16 in.)
Diameter: 4 cm (1 9/16 in.)
Credit Line Henry Lillie Pierce Fund
Accession Number98.900
ClassificationsVessels

Catalogue Raisonné Fairbanks, Vases (MFA), no. 393.
DescriptionPale red clay. Decorations in brown lines. Below shoulder on a broad band, the inscription. "Pyrrhos, son of Agasileos, made me".
Inscriptions"Pyrrhos, son of Agasileos, made me".
ΠΥΡΟΣΜΕΠΟΙΕΣΕΝΑΓΑΣΙΛΕFΟ
ProvenanceBy date unknown: with Edward Perry Warren (according to his records: sent from Athens); 1898: purchased by MFA from Edward Perry Warren for $ 69,618.13 (this figure is the total price for MFA 98.641-98.940)