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Aryballos (oil bottle) with a Frieze of Three Hoplites in Procession on a "Hail Stone" Background
Image Not Available for Aryballos (oil bottle) with a Frieze of Three Hoplites in Procession on a "Hail Stone" Background

Aryballos (oil bottle) with a Frieze of Three Hoplites in Procession on a "Hail Stone" Background

Artist/Maker
Dateca. 600 BCE
MediumEarthenware with brownish-black glaze
DimensionsOverall: 2 1/2 × 2 3/8 in. (6.4 × 6 cm)
Credit LineGift of Leonie Schmidt (OC 1914)
Object number1986.10
Status
Not on view
ProvenanceExcavated at Troy by Margery Aborn probably in 1914;¹ Mrs. Leonie Schmidt, Redwood City, CA; by gift 1986 to Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, OH ¹A letter from Leonie Schmidt dated 21 February 1986 states that "A classmate, Margery Aborn class of 1914, dug up this small jar on the site of ancient Troy when on an archaeological study tour led by a professor of philosophy, Oberlin, faculty of same year."
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