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Accession_Number 22.9.7
Shape Aryballos
Shape_description Broad concave rim; short neck flowing into bulbous body; crude, thick strap handle joins body from rim and shoulder; short foot; broad, flat base.
Material Terracotta
Fabric Corinthian
Fabric_description
Munsell_color 7.5YR 8/3
Decoration Black, mostly fired to orange-red, on buff ground. Possible added colour (white?) in groups of stripes. Mouth: broad band between two narrow bands. On the exterior of the mouth, band; shoulder: tongues. Body: three bands at top; deep painted zone divided vertically by incised lines (two parallel) dissecting into segments; four bands below. Base reserved. The exterior of the ring foot painted.
Inscriptions
Condition Intact. Flaking Gloss on mouth, shoulder, body. Black paint nisfired reddish-brownish. Chips around the mouth and the ring of the foot. White deposits on the junction of the body and the foot at one side.
Technique/Style Late Corinthian I
Provenance Probably Boeotia
Period High Archaic
Date 575-550
Dating_details
Artist
Attribution
Image
Right side view of a Corinthian flat-bottomed aryballos, showing decoration on body.

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Right side view of a Corinthian flat-bottomed aryballos, showing crude, thick strap handle.

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Left side view of a Corinthian flat-bottomed aryballos, showing area where paint has worn on body.

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Top view of a Corinthian flat-bottomed aryballos, showing rim, shoulder and interior.

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Bottom view of an (upside down) Corinthian flat-bottomed aryballos, showing reserved base.
Corinthian flat-bottomed aryballos

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Oblique left-side view of a Corinthian flat-bottomed aryballos, showing the mouth.

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Left side view of a Corinthian flat-bottomed aryballos, showing the handle.

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Back side view of a Corinthian flat-bottomed aryballos, showing the front of the handle.

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Right side view of a Corinthian flat-bottomed aryballos, showing the handle.

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Front view of a Corinthian flat-bottomed aryballos, showing decoration on body.

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Top view of a Corinthian flat-bottomed aryballos, showing the mouth.

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Bottom view of a Corinthian flat-bottomed aryballos, showing the base.
Comparanda
Bibliography
Archive_Ref reference 1
reference 2
Beazley_DB
Height 9.5
Diameters Rim 4.5; neck 2.0; body 8.5; base 6.1
Handle_height 1.9
Other_dims.
Location 8.1.2
Edited_by Denise; Teifi
Date_edited 15.07.2002; 04.09.2006
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