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Accession_Number REDMG:1964.1648
Shape Ball aryballos
Shape_description Projecting rim, with rounded lip and with slightly concave mouth, from which emerges a narrow cylindrical neck, grooved at the base; sloping shoulder; narrow strap handle that curves down to the middle of the shoulder; globular body with a flat bottom.
Material Terracotta
Fabric Corinthian
Fabric_description
Munsell_color 10YR 7/4
Decoration Covered with wash, fired alternately red and black; vertical ridges (ribbing) at the bottom of the shoulder.
Inscriptions
Condition Surface worn and wash/glaze eroded, especially from lip and shoulder.
Technique/Style Middle Corinthian
Provenance
Period High Archaic
Date 600-575
Dating_details
Artist
Attribution
Image


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Front view of a Middle Corinthian ball aryballos.

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Front view of a Middle Corinthian ball aryballos, showing handle.

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Front view of a Middle Corinthian ball aryballos.

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Front view of a Middle Corinthian ball aryballos.

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Oblique view of a Middle Corinthian ball aryballos.

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Front view of the bottom of a Middle Corinthian ball aryballos, showing base.
Comparanda
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Archive_Ref
Beazley_DB
Height 9.6
Diameters rim .4.1, neck 2.2, body 9.4, base 5.4
Handle_height 2.8
Other_dims. W. handle 1.2
Location 7.1.3
Edited_by Denise; Amy; Jayne
Date_edited 12.07.2002; 10.07.2004; 03.08.2022
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