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Terracotta Alabastron with Palmettes in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, June 2010

Terracotta Alabastron with Palmettes in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, June 2010
Terracotta alabastron (perfume vase)
Greek, Attic, black-figure / white-ground, ca. 510 BC
Attributed to the Group of the Paidikos Alabastra
Inscribed, "Hipparchos is beautiful"

Accession # 21.80

Decorated with a lovely pattern of diminishing palmettes, this vase may bear a tribute to Hipparchos, the son of the tyrant Peisistratos. Hipparchos was assassinated by two conspirators, Harmodios and Aristogeiton.

Text from the Metropolitan Museum of Art label.

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