Bottle Depicting Women in a Ritual Dance

ca. 600-570 BCE (Archaic)

9 cm 13.8 cm 9 cm

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Bottles of this type were frequently decorated with images of women engaged in ritual activities. Encircling the vessel are women holding wreaths in a festival dance. In the lower section, a woman bears a "kanoun," or ritual basket, on her head.

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Jean Mikas, Paris, [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Joseph Brummer, Paris and New York, 1925, by purchase [Brummer inv. no. P2176]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1925, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
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