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Oil flask (aryballos) with Bellerophon attacking the Chimaera
Greek
Orientalizing Period, Middle Protocorinthian
about 650 B.C.
Place of Manufacture: Greece, Corinthia, Corinth
Medium/Technique
Ceramic, Black Figure
Dimensions
Height: 6.8 cm (2 11/16 in.); diameter: 3.8 cm (1 1/2 in.)
Credit Line
Catharine Page Perkins Fund
Accession Number95.10
CollectionsAncient Greece and Rome
ClassificationsVessels
Catalogue Raisonné
Fairbanks, Vases (MFA), no. 400.
DescriptionPrincipal design: Bellerophon attacking the Chimaera. Below, a band of dogs chasing a hare.
ProvenanceBy 1894: with Edward Perry Warren (according to Warren's records: "Bought from an Athenian dealer, who said it came from Thebes."); 1895: purchased by MFA from Edward Perry Warren for $ 29,857.37 (this figure is the total price for MFA 95.9-95.174)