Aryballos (perfume vase) with two registers of animals

Aryballos (perfume vase) with two registers of animals

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

This aryballos has two registers of animals.The uppermost shows lions, and the register around the middle shows stylized horses. An East Greek Egyptianizing workshop produced these vessels incised in low relief. The term East Greek applies to the mingled culture of an area of Greek islands and Ionia.

Egyptian Art

An exhibit at Metropolitan Museum of Art

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The Met collection of ancient Egyptian art consists of approximately 30,000 objects of artistic, historical, and cultural importance, dating from about 300,000 BCE to the 4th century CE. A signifcant percentage of the collection is derived from the Museum's three decades of archaeological work in Egypt, initiated in 1906 in response to increasing interest in the culture of ancient Egypt.