Terracotta aryballos (oil flask), Middle Corinthian, ca. 595–570 , Greek, Corinthian, Terracotta; black-figure, H. 4 5/8 in

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Terracotta aryballos (oil flask), Middle Corinthian, ca. 595–570 , Greek, Corinthian, Terracotta; black-figure, H. 4 5/8 in. ( cm), Vases, Herakles attacking a centaur, probably Nessos. The Otterloo Painter favored a type of aryballos with a flattened bottom. The narrative, mythological subject is unusually ambitious in his work. The centaur Nessos offered to help Deianeira, Herakles' wife, ford a stream and, in so doing, attacked her

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