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Faience aryballos (oil bottle) in the form of a hedgehog

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Hedgehogs are among the most common forms of faience oil flasks. The center of production of these vases has traditionally been identified as Naucratis, a Greek trading colony on the Nile Delta, in Egypt.

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0000
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Metropolitan Museum of Art
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aryballoi faience miscellaneous faience east greek archaic aryballos faience aryballos oil bottle oil bottle form hedgehog ancient greek ancient greece high resolution ultra high resolution 3 d object metropolitan museum of art