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Perfume Vase in the Form of the Head of Herakles in the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, June 2010

Perfume Vase in the Form of the Head of Herakles in the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, June 2010
Oil flask (aryballos)
Greek, East Greek, Archaic Period, about 550 B.C.

Dimensions: 8 cm (3 1/8 in.)

Medium or Technique: Ceramic

Classification: Vessels

Accession Number: 1970.64

Head of Herakles wearing his lionskin. Buff clay partly encrusted; traces of red paint. Fine modeling of all the features.

Text from: www.mfa.org/collections/object/oil-flask-aryballos-154594

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