Art Institute of Chicago
Amphoriskos (Container for Oil)
Greek; CorinthLinkedCulture matchlcp-1d92c7d4548a
- Date
- 600-575 BCE
- Medium
- terracotta, black-figure
- Culture
- Corinth
- Department
- Arts of Greece, Rome, and Byzantium
- Institution
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Object ID
- 614
From the Art Institute of Chicago record
Located on the narrow isthmus that joins the Greek mainland and the Peloponnese, with natural harbors facing east and west, Corinth was the major port of trade in Greece for most of the Archaic period (700–480 BCE). Producers exported scented oil around the Mediterranean in terracotta containers like this one known as an amphoriskos, literally a "little amphora," that survive today in the thousands.
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- Credit line
- Gift of Charles L. Hutchinson
- Provenance
- Jean P. Lambros (1843-1909), Athens, Greece; sold to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1892; price reimbursed by Charles L. Hutchinson, 1892.
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- Object type
- AAT300193015
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