Alabastron
73-25-29
From: Mediterranean
Curatorial Section: Mediterranean
| Object Number | 73-25-29 |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Culture | Corinthian |
| Provenience | Mediterranean |
| Manufacture Location | Corinth |
| Period | Late Proto-Corinthian |
| Date Made | 650-630 BCE |
| Section | Mediterranean |
| Materials | Ceramic |
| Description | Sack alabastron with wide flattish base, baggy body, flaring echinus lip. Powdery greenish white clay. Surface reserved. Decoration in black glaze and red paint, mostly fugitive. Top of lip: ray pattern, points out. Body: only a lion can be identified with any confidence, possibly a bird opposite. Figures with some incision. Traces of tongues on base. |
| Height | 6.1 cm |
| Outside Diameter | 3.9 cm |
| Credit Line | Gift of Robert H. Bates, 1973 |
| Other Number | L-224-40 - Old Loan Number |
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