Alabastron (perfume bottle) with a rooster

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Alabastron (perfume bottle) with a rooster

Artist: Attributed to the Erlenmeyer Painter

Culture: Greek

Period: Middle Corinthian

Date: ca. 590-580 BC

Medium: Terracotta, black-figure technique

Dimensions:

height: 7 15/16 in. (20.1 cm)

width: 3 3/4 in. (9.5 cm)

rim diameter: 1 7/8 in. (4.7 cm)

Credit Line: San Antonio Museum of Art, Purchased with funds provided by Gilbert M. Denman, Jr.

Object number: 86.32.1

Provenance: sold by Galerie Günter Puhze, Freiburg, to San Antonio Museum of Art, 1986

Published References H.A. Shapiro, C.A. Picon, and G.D. Scott, III, eds., “Greek Vases in the San Antonio Museum of Art” (San Antonio, 1995) p. 57, no. 16

Label Text

A majestic red and black rooster nearly encircles this vase with his wings. Bottles in this shape were produced in large quantities in Corinth during the 7th and 6th centuries B.C. as containers for the scented oils and perfumes that the city exported around the Mediterranean.
(Jessica Powers, 2008)

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Alabastron (perfume bottle) with a rooster

Alabastron (perfume bottle) with a rooster