aryballos; model group; figure

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Object Type: aryballos; model group; figure
Museum number: 1886,0401.1470
Description: East Greek terracotta aryballos in the form of a hedgehog; exterior: short neck and narrow mouth; hand-modelled ears, eyes, snout, and legs; painted decoration consisting of spots on body, eyes, and ears.
Cultures/periods: East Greek; Archaic Greek
Production date: 550BC (circa)
Production place: Made in: East Greece
Excavator/field collector
Findspot: Excavated/Findspot: Naukratis
Materials
Technique: painted; hand-modelled
Dimensions: Height: 3 centimetres; Length: 4.80 centimetres; Weight: 16 grammes; Width: 2.70 centimetres
Curator's comments: Marked '1'(?) with pencil, but obscured by subsequent registration and catalogue numbers.
Bibliographic references: Terracotta / Catalogue of Terracottas in the British Museum (1642); Villing et al 2013-2015 / Naukratis: Greeks in Egypt (DB.033) (Phase 3); Payne 1931 / Necrocorinthia. A study of corinthian art in the archaic period (p. 176, fig. 79)
Location: On display (G13/dc7)
Subjects
Acquisition name
Acquisition date: 1886
Department: Greek and Roman
Registration number: 1886,0401.1470

Free entry