Ure Museum | Database

cite as: https://uremuseum.org/record/49.8.4

Accession_Number

49.8.4

Shape

Aryballos

Shape_description

Flat-bottomed aryballos. Broad, flat rim; tall thin neck; vertical strap handle; rounded body; small footring; slightly convex base.

Material

Terracotta

Fabric

Corinthian

Fabric_description

Munsell_color

10YR 8/4

Decoration

On the mouth, tonges framed by black bands. On the shoulder, tongues. Neck reserved. Lip has dots around the edge. On the handle, the decoration is hardly preserved, probably black bands zig-zag. Body has three purple bands with double rows of vertical dashes between them. There is a zone of tongues around the base, above of which thin brown line. On the underside of the base, black dot at the centre and traces of black band around it.

Inscriptions

Condition

Intact except for one chip on body and some small around the ring foot. Paint worn on mouth and especially handle and parts of the body. Most of decoration survives and body pattern is clear.

Technique/Style

Late Protocorinthian

Provenance

Period

Early Archaic

Date

650-600

Dating_details

Artist

Attribution

Image

2003.97.0130.jpg	Left side view of a Corinthian ball aryballos, showing daisy pattern on shoulder.
2003.97.0131.jpg	Right side view of a Corinthian ball aryballos, showing slightly slanted mouth and band and vertical line design on body.
2003.97.0132.jpg	Top view of a Corinthian ball aryballos, showing faded decoration on rim.
2003.97.0133.jpg	Bottom view of an (upside down) Corinthian ball aryballos, showing slightly convex base with dot and ring decoration.
2008.99.0365.jpg	Oblique top-left side view of a Corinthian flat-bottomed aryballos.
2008.99.0366.jpg	Left side view of a Corinthian ball aryballos, showing daisy pattern on shoulder.
2008.99.0367.jpg	Back side view of a Corinthian ball aryballos, showing the handle from the front.
2008.99.0368.jpg	Right side view of a Corinthian ball aryballos, showing the handle.
2008.99.0369.jpg	Front view of a Corinthian ball aryballos.
2008.99.0370.jpg	Top view of a Corinthian ball aryballos.
2008.99.0371.jpg	Bottom view of a Corinthian ball aryballos.