VesselsGreek6th century BCE
Oil flask (aryballos) with the heads of a Black African and an Egyptian
6th century
Dimensions
6 cm (2 3/8 in.)
Provenance
[Robert E. Hecht Jr, New York (by ca. 1982)], sold; to the Harvard University Art Museums, 1997.
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