Aryballos (Oil Bottle) in the Shape of a Warrior’s Head (Primary Title)
Unknown (Artist)
Athletes often used aryballoi to carry oil for cleaning their skin after exercising at the gymnasium. This aryballos thus brings together two of the most important activities of Greek men-exercise (training) and war.
Adolph D. and Wilkins C. Williams Fund
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