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Container lid (Erinle)
Container lid (Erinle)

Container lid (Erinle)

Object number81.17.622
Exhibition HistoryLos Angeles, California, Frederick S. Wight Art Gallery, University of California, African Art in Motion: Icon and Act, Jan. 20 - Mar. 17, 1974 (Washington, D.C., National Gallery of Art, May 5 - Sept. 22, 1974). Text by Robert Farris Thompson. No cat. no., p. 154, 156, reproduced pl. 193 (as "erinle" figurated pot-lid).
Credit LineGift of Katherine White and the Boeing Company
Dimensions12 1/4 in. (31.1 cm) Diam.: 3 15/16 in.
MediumTerracotta and pigment
Container for Votive Offerings(?):  Kernos
Cycladic
2200-1900 B.C.
Object number: 63.118
Lekanis (Kylix) with Lid
Greek
375 B.C. -350 B.C.
Object number: 70.96
Dan
Object number: 81.17.209
Bowl
Dan
Object number: 81.17.210
Object number: 81.17.548
Object number: 81.17.729
Seated tanagra figurine
4th - 3rd century B.C.
Object number: 66.101
White Ground Lekythos (oil or perfume container)
Greek
ca. 420 B.C.- 400 B.C.
Object number: 70.101
White Ground Lekythos, (oil or perfume container)
Greek, Attica
ca. 480 - 323 B.C.
Object number: 47.62