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A GRAECO-EGYPTIAN TURQUOISE FAIENCE HEDGEHOG ARYBALLOS FRAGMENT
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A GRAECO-EGYPTIAN TURQUOISE FAIENCE HEDGEHOG ARYBALLOS FRAGMENT

LATE DYNASTY XXVI, CIRCA 550-525 B.C., PROBABLY NAUKRATIS

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A GRAECO-EGYPTIAN TURQUOISE FAIENCE HEDGEHOG ARYBALLOS FRAGMENT
LATE DYNASTY XXVI, CIRCA 550-525 B.C., PROBABLY NAUKRATIS
The head with detailed facial features, pointed nose and elongated ears, a black glazed spot on the forehead, with incised cross-hatching indicating the spines, mounted
1½ in. (4 cm.) high
來源
European private collector: sold Sotheby's New York, 11 December 1980, lot 287.
注意事項
VAT rate of 5% is payable on hammer price plus buyer's premium

拍品專文

PUBLISHED:
Animals, 1981, I, no. 64.

The facial features, 'beauty mark' and colour are paralleled in two aryballoi in the Louvre (E25962 and CA609). Many such aryballoi were found in Rhodes, but it is generally thought that these vessels, showing the Egyptian long eared hedgehog (Hemiechinus auritus), were made in Naukratis, the Greek settlement in the Nile delta.