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Accession_Number

REDMG:1951.154

Shape

Bombylios

Shape_description

Flaring flat, broad lip with convex upper surface and and concave lower surface, curving into a cylindrical neck; vertical ribbon handle emerges from the rim and rejoins the bottom of the neck at a bulge, below which is a conical body, with a rounded base, and a slight conical indentation at the bottom.

Material

Terracotta

Fabric

Etruscan

Fabric_description

Munsell_color

10YR 6/4

Decoration

Interior of mouth black; lip decorated with concentric bands (black, reserved, purple, reserved, black); rim black; three brownish-black horizontal bars on handle; neck, reserved for black band just above bulge, frieze of tongues on upper part of bulge; brown band on lower part of bulge; body decorated with purple band, brownish-black band; reserved band decorated with three rows of brownish-black dots; thin purple band between two broader brownish-black bands; reserved on lower part of body and base.

Inscriptions

Condition

Intact; decoration worn and slightly chipped, especially around mouth and handle.

Technique/Style

Provenance

In second consignment received on loan from Reading Museum, 1951.

Period

Early Classical

Date

600-575

Dating_details

Artist

Attribution

Image

	View of the right side of a Corinthian bombylios.
2002.97.0135.jpg
	Oblique view of the right side of a Corinthian bombylios, from above.
2003.93.0074.jpg	Left side view of an Etruscan bombylios, in imitation of Corinthian style.
2003.97.0262.jpg	View of the left side of a Corinthian bombylios.
2003.97.0263.jpg	View of the right side of a Corinthian bombylios.
2003.97.0264.jpg	Top view of a Corinthian bombylios, showing the mouth.
2003.97.0265.jpg	View of the base of a Corinthian bombylios.
2005.99.0098.jpg	View of the left side of a Corinthian bombylios, showing the handle and decoration on body.
2005.99.0099.jpg	Front of a Corinthian bombylios, showing the decoration on the body.
2005.99.0100.jpg	View of the right side of a Corinthian bombylios, showing the decoration on the body and the handle.
2005.99.0101.jpg	Back view of a Corinthian bombylios, showing the decoration on the body. ?
2005.99.0102.jpg	Front view of a Corinthian bombylios, showing the base.
2005.99.0103.jpg	Front view of a Corinthian bombylios, showing the mouth.