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Accession_Number 37.11.1
Shape Aryballos
Shape_description Scale Aryballos (pointed/piriform)
Material Terracotta
Fabric Corinthian
Fabric_description
Munsell_color 10YR 8/4
Decoration Black, partly fired to brick-red, on brownish-buff. On mouth and shoulder daisy pattern; on handle three bands of vertical zigzags. Main zone: scales, drawn with parallel incised lines with red teardrops occupying angle in alternate rows. Two bands below, then tongues. Base shows one band and a dot in the centre.
Inscriptions
Condition Intact and shape undamaged. Colouring is worn away but the pattern of scales still remains clear. Most worn is the handle and the top of the mouth.
Technique/Style Late Protocorinthian
Provenance
Period Subgeometric
Date 640-580
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Artist
Attribution
Image

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A Late Protocorinthian/Transitional lekythos between two Corinthian bombylioi (left, 25.8.4 and right, 39.9.4), shown from the side.

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Three-quarter back view of a Corinthian scale aryballos.

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Left side view of a Corinthian scale aryballos.

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Left side view of a Corinthian scale Aryballos.

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Left side view of a Corinthian scale aryballos.
Comparanda
Bibliography CVA 3.9; Neeft 1987 284, no. 2046
Archive_Ref
Beazley_DB
Height 11.5
Diameters Body 4.8; base 1.7
Handle_height
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Location Timeline 2 top
Edited_by Denise; Kinsey
Date_edited 15.07.2002; 16.01.2006
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