aryballos
- Museum number
- 1886,0401.1298
- Description
-
Body and base sherd of Corinthian black-figured pottery globular aryballos; glaze fired red-brown; exterior, from top: two friezes of dotes between lines; black-figure decoration consisting of row of hoplites (parts of five remaining) marching to right with round shields (incised rims with added red in centre; hailstone filling ornament); five bands; frieze of narrow tongues; four bands around a central depression on the base; .
- Production date
- 595BC-570BC (circa)
- Dimensions
-
Height: 5 centimetres (about)
-
Thickness: 0.40 centimetres
-
Width: 5.60 centimetres
- Curator's comments
- For parallels, see Gauckler, P., Nécropoles Puniques de Carthage I-II. Paris 1915, pl. CLXIX. Note the hailstone dots on the Carthage vessel are larger than on British Museum 1886,1201.1298.
See also the British Museum aryballos 1867,0508.885, from Nola.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1886
- Department
- Greek and Roman
- Registration number
- 1886,0401.1298