cite as: https://uremuseum.org/record/51.4.5
Accession_Number | 51.4.5 |
Shape | Alabastron |
Shape_description | Sack-like body with narrow mouth (missing, as is handle), broadening with slightly convex sides, and rounding gently to a flat base. |
Material | Terracotta |
Fabric | Boeotian |
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Munsell_color | 7.5YR 7/4 |
Decoration | Decoration in black and purplish-brown over a pale slip, with incised decoration on the back. At the top of the body is a broad band between two pairs of narrow bands. Above this is some evidence of a frieze of vertical bars. Below is a figural frieze, decorated at front with a geometricising bird flying profile to the right, holding a wavy line in his beak. He is surrounded by two crosses and two clusters of 8 dots (rudimentary rosettes) in the field. A floral decoration at the back is comprised of four interlocking palmettes, with purplish-brown petals and brownish-black hearts separated by incisions, with tendrils terminating in volutes emanating from either side of each sideways palmette. The lower part of the body is decorated with a thick black band between a pair of thin bands, above, and a thin band, below. |
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Condition | Comprised of 13 or more fragments, rejoined, missing mouth,neck, and some parts of body. Surface scratched, with pitting and yellowish-grey deposits throughout. |
Technique/Style | Imitation of Corinthian; reminiscent of so-called kylix style. |
Provenance | |
Period | High Archaic / Late Archaic |
Date | 6 c. |
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Height | 16.4 |
Diameters | 9.9 (max.) |
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Location | Timeline 2b bottom |
Edited_by | Georgina; Kinsey; Teifi; Amy |
Date_edited | 09.08.02; 20.01.2006; 18.08.2006; 11.08.2011 |