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Accession_Number 26.12.6
Shape Amphoriskos
Shape_description Slightly concave base.
Material Terracotta
Fabric Corinthian
Fabric_description
Munsell_color 5Y 8/2
Decoration Pale greenish clay once decorated with black paint, now brown. Two handles left reserved. Mouth black and on shoulder is a daisy-petal pattern. Just above the widest part of the body is a single row of dots and the rest is banded.
Inscriptions
Condition Intact. Much of the paint has eroded leaving traces of the pattern. Small chip to rim.
Technique/Style Middle Corinthian
Provenance
Period Early Archaic / High Archaic
Date 700-650
Dating_details
Artist
Attribution
Image
Front view of a Middle Corinthian amphoriskos.
Front view of a Middle Corinthian amphoriskos.

2003.03.0086.jpg		Side view of aryballos, showing decoration of three grazing deer.

2003.07.0008.jpg		Front view of a Middle Corinthian amphoriskos.

2003.97.0339.jpg		Oblique view, from slightly above, of a Middle Corinthian amphoriskos.

2003.97.0340.jpg		Oblique view, from slightly above, of a Middle Corinthian amphoriskos.

2003.97.0341.jpg		Top view of a Middle Corinthian amphoriskos, showing the mouth.

2003.97.0342.jpg		Bottom view of a Middle Corinthian amphoriskos, showing the base.
Comparanda CVA Moscow 7, 12.5; seven similar vases found at Rhitsona in graves of c. 580 BC: NC p.314 fig. 158.
Bibliography CVA Reading 1, pl. 7.4; comments on CVA Moscow 7, 12.5
Archive_Ref reference 1
reference 2
Beazley_DB
Height 9.8
Diameters 6.0
Handle_height 2.2
Other_dims.
Location Timeline 2 top
Edited_by Denise; Karen
Date_edited 23.07.2002; 31.03.2004
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