Aryballos

MS393

From: Greece | Attica | Athens

Curatorial Section: Mediterranean

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Object Number MS393
Current Location Collections Storage
Culture Corinthian
Provenience Greece | Attica | Athens
Manufacture Location Corinth
Period Late Proto-Corinthian
Date Made 650-630 BCE
Section Mediterranean
Materials Ceramic
Description

Pointed aryballos. Complete. Creamy white slip. Very small ring foot, ovoid body and fairly wide flaring neck. Atop this, flat disk with strap handle curving back to shoulder. Band around aperture; another at outer edge of disk. Four horizontal bars on handle. Band demarcating shoulder and six similar bands evenly spaced from lower belly down. Between, at widest point a zone of six narrow lines.

Height 7 cm
Outside Diameter 3 cm
Credit Line Gift of Mrs. Charles Platt Jr., 1898

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