cite as: https://uremuseum.org/record/30.11.1
Accession_Number | 30.11.1 |
Shape | Alabastron |
Shape_description | Also called bombylios. |
Material | Terracotta |
Fabric | Boeotian |
Fabric_description | |
Munsell_color | 7.5YR 7/6 |
Decoration | On mouth, daisy pattern between two pairs of circles; cross-hatching on one edge of rim. Daisy petals on neck. Main zone: In front large lotus cross with incised outline, small field rosettes, at back large rosettes with single or double incised circles at centre. Above and below main zone, seven thin bands with double row of vertical line patterns in the middle. On the base, band of leaves and a dot in the very centre, which is indented. |
Inscriptions | |
Condition | Complete but not intact. The top of the mouth has some small chips in it and a small crack inside the mouth. The rim is worn, leaving only a little cross-hatching still evident. At the top and bottom of the handle, is revealed where it has been stuck back together again. There is white deposit on the handle. The surface of the body shows little scratches and wear on the glaze. On the base is a small patch of greyish deposit. |
Technique/Style | |
Provenance | |
Period | High Archaic |
Date | 575-550 |
Dating_details | |
Artist | Horse-Bird Painter |
Attribution | Kilinski |
Image | |
Comparanda | Boeotian imitation of Corinthian (cf. Payne NC pp.202-3, 341; AA 1933 pp.8-11; Beazley, Hesperia 13 (1944) p. 44-45) |
Bibliography | CVA Reading 1, pl. 16.1; K. Kilinski II, Boeotian Black-figure Vase-painting of the Archaic Period (1974) 25 no. 38 |
Archive_Ref | reference 1 reference 2 |
Beazley_DB | |
Height | 23.8 |
Diameters | Mouth 1.8; neck. 6.7; body. 9.9 |
Handle_height | 3.3 |
Other_dims. | |
Location | Greece |
Edited_by | Georgina; Karen; Kinsey |
Date_edited | 09.08.02; 05.04.2004; 09.01.2006 |