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Accession_Number 11.10.5
Shape Aryballos
Shape_description Ball
Material Terracotta
Fabric Corinthian
Fabric_description
Munsell_color 10YR 7/3
Decoration On mouth four bands; on body, wingless sphinx. One rosette with incisions crossing at centre. Some traces of added colour, now lost. On bottom (rather flat) three circles.
Inscriptions
Condition
Technique/Style
Provenance From Rhitsona, Boeotia
Period Middle Corinthian
Date 600-575
Dating_details
Artist
Attribution
Image
Left side view of a Corinthian aryballos, showing forepart of the sphinx design on the body.
Side view of a Corinthian aryballos, showing part of the sphinx design on the body.

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Side view of aryballos, showing wingless sphinx.

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Side view of a Corinthian aryballos, showing the sphinx design on the body.

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Back view of a Corinthian aryballos, showing the handle

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Top view of a Corinthian aryballos, showing the mouth and rim.

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Underside view of a Corinthian aryballos, showing circular pattern on the base.
Comparanda
Bibliography CVA Reading 1, pl. 3.18
Archive_Ref reference 1
reference 2
Beazley_DB
Height 6.0
Diameters
Handle_height
Other_dims.
Location Greece
Edited_by Denise; Karen; Kinsey
Date_edited 19.08.2002; 31.03.2004; 10.01.2006
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