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Accession_Number 27.3.4
Shape Aryballos
Shape_description Ovoid. Referred to as lekythos in CVA.
Material Terracotta
Fabric Corinthian
Fabric_description
Munsell_color 10YR 8/4
Decoration Flat lip with two black bands. Three horizontal lines on handle. On body, from top to bottom, shoulder bare, black band, group of seven thin lines, five thicker bands coloured black but often fading into brick-red. Base reserved, slightly concave.
Inscriptions
Condition Intact. Two large chips on body and one on handle.
Technique/Style Late Protocorinthian
Provenance Presumably from Cumae
Period Subgeometric
Date 625-620
Dating_details
Artist Navarra Type
Attribution Neeft 1987
Image

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Side view of intact aryballos, showing neck and handle. Striped decoration.

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Three Corinthian aryballos, left to right: 27.3.4, 27.3.6, 27.3.7.

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A Corinthian ovoid aryballos.
Comparanda
Bibliography CVA Reading 1, pl. 3.5; Neeft 1987, no. 2039
Archive_Ref reference 1
reference 2
Beazley_DB
Height 7.3
Diameters Rim 3.1; body 3.9; foot 1.0
Handle_height 2.4
Other_dims.
Location 7.1.4
Edited_by Denise; Karen; Jayne
Date_edited 22.07.2002; 31.03.2004; 03.08.22
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