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

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Faience aryballos (oil flask) 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.
Archaic

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0000

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Metropolitan Museum of Art

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