An aryballos (Greek: ἀρύβαλλος; plural aryballoi) was a small spherical or globular flask with a narrow neck used in Ancient Greece. [1][2] It was used to contain perfume or oil, and is often …

Aryballos, small, narrow-necked, spherical or globular Greek vase. Commonly used as a scent or oil bottle, particularly by athletes at the baths, the aryballos derives from the globular wine …

The Aineta aryballos is an Ancient Greek aryballos (a small, spherical flask or vase), made between approximately 625 and 570 BCE in the city of Corinth in southern Greece.

Pottery aryballos decorated in miniature with eighteen warriors, a hare-hunt and a horse-race. The warriors are locked in combat, thrusting their spears, jostling for position, or falling to the ground.

May 8, 2018 · This vessel shape is called an aryballos (plural: aryballoi). Aryballoi functioned as oil jars and are associated with bathing by athletes in the gymnasion or palaestra. Because of …

During the Archaic period in particular (although later examples are attested), wine, oil, or perfume containers were given the shape of a human head or more rarely of a human body part or a …

Aryballos belonging to the Warrior Group, decorated in the black-figure technique. It was found intact in 1957 at the Sanctuary of the Nymphe. The aryballos has a spherical body, low neck, …

Title: Terracotta aryballos (oil flask) Artist: Attributed to the Amasis Painter. Period: Archaic. Date: ca. 550 BCE. Culture: Greek, Attic. Medium: Terracotta; black-figure. Dimensions: H. 3 1/4 in. …

Producers exported scented oil around the Mediterranean in terra-cotta containers, such as this aryballos, that survive today in the thousands.

This vase once functioned as an oil flask (aryballos, plural aryballoi) and takes the form of two heads facing opposite directions. One is the head of a Greek woman and the other a Black …