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OIl flask (alabastron)

OIl flask (alabastron)

about 1365–1200 B.C.
Country of Origin, for CustomsGreece
Medium/TechniqueCeramic
DimensionsHeight: 5.3 cm (2 1/16 in.); Diameter 7.5 cm (2 15/15 in.)
Credit LineGift of Miss Mary Lee
Accession number1982.681
On View
Not on view
ClassificationsVessels
ProvenanceBy 1933: Miss Mary Lee Collection (said to have been found by Miss Mary Lee at the side of a railroad cutting in Myloi (Lerna) near Argos); loaned by Mary Lee to MFA, January 13, 1933 as 23.33; by 1982: estate of Miss Mary Lee; gift of her executors to MFA, December 8, 1982
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Oil flask (lekythos) with the hunter Kephalos and his dog
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the Pan Painter
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the Antimenes Painter
530–520 B.C.
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Bottom of Vase
Cylindrical container (pyxis) and lid
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Oil flask (alabastron)
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The Erlenmeyer Painter
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