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Source Description
Perfume flasks in the form of a monkey are numerous, but few are as well made and preserved as this one. The flask was worn suspended from the wrist by a cord. Its owner would take it to the communal baths and anoint himself with its contents afterward. Such flasks have been found throughout the Mediterranean and Egypt, but this vessel was likely made at a Greek settlement on the west coast of Asia Minor.
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156119
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Monkey-Shaped Aryballos (Oil Vessel)
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156119
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Monkey-Shaped Aryballos (Oil Vessel)
description
Perfume flasks in the form of a monkey are numerous, but few are as well made and preserved as this one. The flask was worn suspended from the wrist by a cord. Its owner would take it to the communal baths and anoint himself with its contents afterward. Such flasks have been found throughout the Mediterranean and Egypt, but this vessel was likely made at a Greek settlement on the west coast of Asia Minor.
date
c. 580 BCE
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CC0
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CC0
language
en
wikidata
Q60760875
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Ceramic
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dimensionsRaw
Diameter of mouth: 2 cm (13/16 in.); Overall: 9 cm (3 9/16 in.); Diameter of base: 3.7 cm (1 7/16 in.)
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East Greek, probably Milesian
accession
1991.5
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Monkey-Shaped Aryballos (Oil Vessel), c. 580 BCE. East Greek, probably Milesian. Ceramic; diameter of mouth: 2 cm (13/16 in.); overall: 9 cm (3 9/16 in.); diameter of base: 3.7 cm (1 7/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Seventy-fifth anniversary gift of Dr. Leo Mildenberg in honor of Arielle P. Kozloff, 1991.50
collection
GR - Greek
didYouKnow
An aryballos is a small jar for scented oils and perfumes.
citations
citation
Beazley Archive. n.d. <em>Beazley Archive Pottery Database</em>. Oxford: Beazley Archive.
page_number
BAPD 1002947
citation
Ducat, Jean. <em>Les Vases plastiques rhodiens archaïques en terre cuite</em>. Paris: F., de Boccard, 1966.
page_number
p. 122, no. C-2
citation
André Emmerich Gallery. <em>Classical Art from a New York Collection: An Exhibition of Ancient Bronzes, Figurative Plastic Vases and Other Ancient Works of Art, Organized in Cooperation with Münzen Und Medaillen AG, Basle, Switzerland, September 27-November 16, 1977.</em> New York: André Emmerich Gallery, 1977.
page_number
no. 13
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Kozloff, Arielle P., and Leo Mildenberg. <em>Animals in Ancient Art: From the Leo Mildenberg Collection. </em>Cleveland (Ohio): Cleveland Museum of Art, 1981.
page_number
p. 117, no. 98
citation
Gehrig, Ulrich. <em>Tierbilder aus vier Jahrtausenden: Antiken aus Sammlung Mildenberg</em>. Mainz am Rhein: Philipp von Zabern, 1983.
page_number
p. 102, no. 98
citation
Kozloff, Arielle P., David Gordon Mitten, and Michel Sguaitamatti. <em>More Animals in Ancient Art from the Leo Mildenberg Collection</em>. Mainz am Rhein: Verlag Philipp von Zabern, 1986.
page_number
no. 42
citation
Turner, Evan H., Alan Chong, Henry Hawley, Jane Glaubinger, Tom E. Hinson, Henry John Drewal, Margaret Young-Sánchez, Stanislaw J. Czuma, J. Keith Wilson, Michael R. Cunningham, Lawrence M. Berman, Ariellé P. Kozloff, Renate Eikelmann, Michael J. Miller, Anne E. Wardwell, and Bruce Robertson. "Notable Acquisitions." <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em> 78, no. 3 (1991)
page_number
p. 70
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Zahlhaas, Gisela. <em>Aus Noahs Arche: Tierbilder der Sammlung Mildenberg aus fünf Jahrtausenden. </em>München: P. von Zabern, 1996.
page_number
no. 62, p. 80, no. 138, p. 177
citation
Mottahedeh, Patricia Erhart, and Gisela Zahlhaas. Out of Noah's Ark: Animals in Ancient Art from the Leo Mildenburg Collection. Mainz: P. von Zabern, 1997.
page_number
p. 80, no. 62, 177
citation
Neils, Jenifer, and Gisela Walberg. <em>Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum: The Cleveland Museum of Art. </em>[Cleveland, OH]: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 2000.
page_number
pp. 23-24, pl. 59.3-7
creditline
Seventy-fifth anniversary gift of Dr. Leo Mildenberg in honor of Arielle P. Kozloff
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2026-05-29 08:06:58.210000
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156119
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Greek and Roman Art
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GR - Greek
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