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Accession_Number 27.4.9
Shape Aryballos
Shape_description Round ('ball aryballos')
Material Terracotta
Fabric Corinthian
Fabric_description
Munsell_color 10YR 8/2
Decoration Grazing goat to left but no trace of added red. Rosettes, with and without an incised circle at centre. Below goat four bands. On bottom two circles, one thin and one thick, round a central spot.
Inscriptions
Condition Mouth and handle missing. Goat has worn away slightly but is still distinguishable.
Technique/Style Late Corinthian
Provenance Probably Greece
Period High Archaic
Date 575-550
Dating_details
Artist Herzegovina Painter
Attribution Attributed by Amyx 237.22 [19]
Image

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Side view of aryballos, mouth and handle missing. Shows field rosettes and hindquarters of goat.

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A Corinthian round ball aryballos.

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A Corinthian round ball aryballos.

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Front view of a Corinthian round ball aryballos, showing the goat.
Comparanda
Bibliography CVA Reading 1, pl. 4.3; Amyx 1988, 237.22 [19]
Archive_Ref reference 1
reference 2
Beazley_DB
Height 5.6
Diameters 6.3
Handle_height
Other_dims.
Location History grave
Edited_by Denise; Karen; Kinsey
Date_edited 16.08.2002; 31.03.2004; 18.01.2006
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