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Aryballos

73-25-31

From: Greece | Argolid | Argive Heraeum

Curatorial Section: Mediterranean

Object Number 73-25-31
Current Location Collections Storage
Culture Corinthian
Provenience Greece | Argolid | Argive Heraeum
Manufacture Location Corinth
Creator Painter of Louvre E 380
Period Middle Proto-Corinthian II | Late Proto-Corinthian
Date Made 655-645 BCE
Section Mediterranean
Materials Ceramic
Iconography Goose | Hound
Description

Ovoid aryballos fragment. Very small ring foot. Walls curve quickly to swelling body. Lower wall very thick. Extremely hard buff clay. Surface covered with a self slip. Decoration in black and dilute glaze. Lower wall, bottom to top: 2 wheel-painted lines; zone of figures running to left (L to R, goose, dog, part of hound). 6 fine lines under frieze. "Heraeum" in pencil on in/terior.

Height 2.8 cm
Width 3.8 cm
Thickness 0.5 cm
Outside Diameter 3.9 cm
Credit Line Gift of Robert H. Bates, 1973
Other Number L-224-42 - Old Loan Number

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