Ure Museum | Database

cite as: https://uremuseum.org/record/26.8.2

Accession_Number

26.8.2

Shape

Aryballos

Shape_description

Round ('Ball aryballos')

Material

Terracotta

Fabric

Corinthian

Fabric_description

Munsell_color

10YR 8/1

Decoration

Top of mouth broad band between two pairs of lines with two bands on side. Grazing goat to right, body framed in dots. Added red on hindquarters. Field rosettes with incised circle at centre. Below goat three bands with the middle one broader. Behind goat is a heart shape within a circle. Large area left blank in the 'white style' on opposite face to goat. On base is three bands with a dot in the centre.

Inscriptions

Condition

Half the mouth is missing as is a fraction of the handle. Paint is worn but some colour patches of red remain. Intact.

Technique/Style

Late Corinthian I

Provenance

Period

Early Archaic

Date

600-575

Dating_details

Artist

Empedocles Painter

Attribution

Attributed by Amyx 246.10

Image

	Front view of a Corinthian ball aryballos, showing a goat.
	Left side view of a Corinthian ball aryballos, showing the goat design on the base.
2003.04.0008.jpg	Side view of two Corinthian ball aryballoi (26.8.2 at left and RM.87.35.19 at right).
2003.04.0096.jpg	Side view of a Corinthian aryballos, showing the hindquarters of grazing goat.
2003.04.0098.jpg	Side view of a Corinthian aryballos, showing the head and shoulders of grazing goat.
2003.97.0061.jpg	Front view of a Corinthian ball aryballos, showing the goat design on the base.
2003.97.0062.jpg	Left side view of a Corinthian ball aryballos, showing end of goat design on the base.
2003.97.0063.jpg	Top view of a Corinthian ball aryballos, showing the damaged mouth.
2003.97.0064.jpg	Bottom view of a Corinthian aryballos, showing bands around the rounded base.
2005.05.0041.jpg	Front view of a Corinthian ball aryballos, showing the goat design on the base.