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cite as: https://uremuseum.org/record/REDMG:1953.25.43

Accession_Number

REDMG:1953.25.43

Shape

Ball aryballos

Shape_description

Broad projecting rim with slightly convex lip; short narrow neck curving into a globular body with rounded base; flat strap handle extends from the rim to the middle of the shoulder.

Material

Terracotta

Fabric

Corinthian

Fabric_description

Munsell_color

10YR 8/3

Decoration

Black glaze (mostly disappeared). Incised decoration: a large double palmette and three rosettes (of which two remain).

Inscriptions

Condition

One third of the rim is missing and the right side of the handle is chipped. The black glaze has chipped away, and there are tan deposits, especially around the mouth and the lower body.

Technique/Style

Early Protocorinthian

Provenance

Period

Early Archaic

Date

725-700

Dating_details

Artist

Attribution

Image

	Oblique view, from slightly above, of the left side of an Early Protocorinthian ball aryballos.
2003.93.0289.jpg	Oblique view, from slightly above, of the left side of an Early Protocorinthian ball aryballos.
2003.97.0073.jpg	Oblique view, from slightly above, of the left side of an Early Protocorinthian ball aryballos.
2003.97.0074.jpg	Right side view of an Early Protocorinthian ball aryballos.
2003.97.0075.jpg	Right side view of an Early Protocorinthian ball aryballos, showing the lip.
2003.97.0076.jpg	Right side view of an Early Protocorinthian ball aryballos, showing the rounded base.
2004.99.0339.jpg	Top view of the top of an Early Protocorinthian aryballos, showing the missing section of the rim.
2004.99.0340.jpg	Top view of the bottom of an Early Protocorinthian aryballos, showing the rounded base.
2004.99.0341.jpg	Front view of an Early Protocorinthian aryballos.
2004.99.0342.jpg	Front view of an Early Protocorinthian aryballos, showing the handle.
2004.99.0343.jpg	Oblique view of an Early Protocorinthian aryballos.
2004.99.0344.jpg	Front view of the body of an Early Protocorinthian aryballos.