Aryballos

73-25-5

From: Mediterranean

Curatorial Section: Mediterranean

Object Number 73-25-5
Current Location Collections Storage
Culture Late Corinthian
Provenience Mediterranean
Manufacture Location Corinth
Period Late Corinthian Period
Date Made 570-550 BCE
Section Mediterranean
Materials Ceramic
Description

Flat-bottomed aryballos. Low, spreading ring foot. Resting surface and bottom reserved. Outer edge of foot glazed. Lower wall: reserved, 3 wheel-painted glaze lines. Area from lower wall to shoulder glazed and divided into long, narrow panels, each ca. 1.0 cm broad, by pairs of vertical incised lines. Many, possibly all, of the panels were painted purple over the glaze: much of purple has flaked off. Shoulder reserved and painted with three wheel-painted lines. Tongue pattern radiating from base of neck. Neck, lip and handle reserved. Outer edge of lip: wheel-painted glaze line. Top of lip: a broad, wheel-painted band of glaze with superimposed purple, a single wheel-painted line on either side.

Height 9.7 cm
Outside Diameter 8.8 cm
Credit Line Gift of Robert H. Bates, 1973
Other Number L-224-7 - Old Loan Number

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