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There are 19 objects for which Decoration contains → ball
2007.9.1.72 Displays a mouse with a small ball.
2009.10.2.276 Standing nude male figure wearing a helmet and a cloak, holding a spear in his right hand and embracing a semi-nude female figure with his left. Female figure has drapery over her legs and is resting her right foot on a ball. Number 66
2009.10.2.56 Man with scepter standing on ball with two figures on his left, one above the other. one is a woman and one is sitting down. Number 56.
2009.8.166 A woman wearing a dress with a stick and holding/offering a ball or apple to the young man. He is naked also holding a stick and a ball or apple in his hand. Beneath her a scorpion, beneath him a crab. Cast number: 20
2009.8.178 A naked man with a beard and a cloak around his shoulders, holding a ball in one hand and a trident in the other. Probably Poseidon. Cast number: 32
2009.8.40 A young woman holding a ball. Inscription on the left side. Cast number: 66
2009.8.41 A young woman wearing a dress is sitting on a rock and holding a ball. One arm is put on her knee. Inscription on the bottom. Cast number: 141
2009.8.48 A young nacked woman with wavy hair and a ribbon, sitting on a rock holding a ball in her hand, the other put on her knee. Inscription on the bottom. Cast number: 153
2009.9.21 There is a box with a snake on it on the bottom, on the box a globe with Greek letters, and coming out of the ball a dog's head, looking right. Inscriptions around and on the globe. Cast number: 35
2009.9.281 A bearded man in full armour holding a spear, putting one hand on a ball or globe carried by a man or child sitting next to his feet. A winged creature is standing on the bearded man's hand, maybe Nike. Cast number: 19
2009.9.37 A ball or a globe from which two grow two serpent heads. On the head on the left side stands a man turning to the monster in the middle, on the head on the right side stands a woman also facing the monster. The monster in the middle has a male human body but two dog's heads, one facing the woman, the other the man. The scenery is enclosed by a serpent biting in its own tail. There are letters on the serpent heads. Cast number: 51
2009.9.76 A naked man with wings holding a ball in one hand and a cane in the other. Cast number: 9
2009.9.78 A naked winged man sitting on a rock, holding a ball in his hand. Cast number: 11
2009.9.8 A woman holding a basket in her left hand, offering some kind of vessel to the naked winged child in the middle or the man on the right. The man and the woman are wearing what looks like a crown. The man is offering a ball or a fruit to the woman and holding a stick in his left hand. Cast number: 22
22.3.28 Youth walking right, holding ribboned ball. White on youth's foot. Edge of robe and part of foot of figure right. Above, rectangular object in white, white handle. Below, tray(?) edged with white dots. Line of white dots along ground level. White for bracelet and necklace.
25.8.3 Globular, trefoil moth, tricorne lid, shallow foot-ring. Black, underneath reserved. Clay pale buf. Some plaster filling. Tongues on shoulder, every second red, every fourth yellowish-buff, orig. white (cf. ball aryballos 39.9.5). Just below tongues
47.2.21 Three careless thick vertical bands of white slip, which start just below the join of the knob and the bell, and slip onto the underside of the bell; otherwise reserved. Striations on the inside and outside of the bell indicate that it was formed on a wheel, although the knob and striking ball were probably not.
49.4.2 Woman with a fan and a ball, seated in a naiskos; kalathos on either side. The inner side of the rim bears a broad band (in the middle of the surface). The top surface bears traces of carelessly applied red colour. The edge is also black and its side surface bears a reserved line and a black line underneath, from which seem to be hanging short, vertical lines. The upper part of the neck is reserved, but bears a black band on its lower part. The rest of the neck is decorated with black colour, on top of which there is a tongue pattern in yellow (faded away) that contours the vessel (long, pointed on the bottom tongues). Below, there is a reserved line. Side A: The main scene depicts a female figure seated in a naiskos (monument with pediment, from whose upper part emerge palmettes and tendrils, epistylion, an ionic column on either side an top of a stylobates or crepis, the latter represented with a perpetual pattern of voluted motives and dots in between, framed by white lines, thin, black bands and white bands), on a diphros okladias. The woman is facing left, she is wearing a peplos, holding a fan with her right hand and a round object with the left one, below which there is a row of dots. She also wears a kalyptra and has her hair in a bun, from which emerge two wavy lines with round terminations. Behind her, at the level of her head, there is a window (square object with the middle part riddled). The naiskos is flanked by a kalathos on either side, decorated with black and yellow horizontal lines, tendrils and branches, as well as yellow tongues and yellow meander pattern. There is a row of yellow dots below each kalathos and a rosette on top. Below the row of dots underneath the left kalathos there is another rosette, whereas underneath the row of dots below the right kalathos there is a phiale. The details are executed with added yellow. The handles are black. The reverse is decorated with floral motifs: the area underneath the vertical handle is black, with an H-shaped black motif divided in two by a vertical line, on a round, brown background. The surface below the vertical handle depicts two fan-shaped palmettes, from which emerge elaborate, voluted floral patterns that expand to the surface below the horizontal handles. The lower part of the body is contoured by a wavy-like pattern on a brown background. The area below is black, although streaky on some areas, while the lowest part of the body is reserved but glazed. The foot is black, with a reserved resting surface.
TEMP.2003.8.3 The body of a person probably standing to the left as right arm is bent at elbow across body and pointing left holding a small black ball. The person is wearing a himation.
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