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Accession_Number 48.12.4
Shape Alabastron
Shape_description Broad, flat rim; short neck the length of which runs the handle with a hole for suspension; inverted oviod body; rounded base.
Material Terracotta
Fabric Corinthian
Fabric_description
Munsell_color 5Y 8/4
Decoration Decoration brownish-black. On mouth, one broad ring, one narrow. Ring around outer edge. On shoulder are tongues. From top to bottom: bands, double row of dots, 3 bands, double row of dots, 3 bands. Two bands on base.
Inscriptions
Condition Part of mouth missing. Paint badly worn. flaked on most part. Scratches on the body.
Technique/Style Early Corinthian
Provenance
Period Early Archaic
Date 625-600
Dating_details
Artist
Attribution
Image

2003.92.0256.jpg
Bottom view of a Corinthian bombylios, showing band decoration on base.

2003.92.0257.jpg
Top view of a Corinthian bombylios, showing the broad, flat rim with piece missing and interior.

2003.92.0258.jpg
Left side view of an (upside down) Corinthian bombylios, showing decoration of bands and double rows of dots.

2003.92.0259.jpg
Back view of an (upside down) Corinthian bombylios, showing decoration of bands and double rows of dots.

2003.92.0260.jpg
Right side view of an (upside down) Corinthian bombylios, showing decoration of bands and double rows of dots.

2003.92.0261.jpg
Front view of an (upside down) Corinthian bombylios, showing decoration of bands and double rows of dots.

2003.97.0285.jpg
Right side view of a Corinthian bombylios, showing decoration of bands and double rows of dots.

2010.98.0356.jpg
Left side view of an (upside down) Corinthian bombylios, showing decoration of bands and double rows of dots.

2010.98.0357.jpg
Front view of an (upside down) Corinthian bombylios, showing decoration of bands and double rows of dots.

2010.98.0358.jpg
Right side view of an (upside down) Corinthian bombylios, showing decoration of bands and double rows of dots.

2010.98.0359.jpg
Back view of an (upside down) Corinthian bombylios, showing decoration of bands and double rows of dots.

2010.98.0360.jpg
Top view of a Corinthian bombylios, showing the broad, flat rim with piece missing and interior.

2010.98.0361.jpg
Bottom view of a Corinthian bombylios, showing band decoration on base.

2010.98.0362.jpg
Oblique view from above of a Corinthian bombylios,showing the broad, flat rim with piece missing and body's decoration of bands and double rows of dots.

2010.98.0363.jpg
Right side view of a Corinthian bombylios, showing decoration of bands and double rows of dots.
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Archive_Ref
Beazley_DB
Height 7.7
Diameters Rim 3.3; mouth 0.8; neck 1.5; body 4.4
Handle_height 2.3
Other_dims.
Location 7.1.4
Edited_by Denise; Teifi; Jayne
Date_edited 23.07.2002; 04.09.2006; 03.08.22
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