aryballos

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Object Type
Museum number: 1894,1101.501
Description: Pottery Protocorinthian aryballos or flask; wheel-made; ovoid body and flat base, missing the mouth and the handle; made of buff clay decorated with parallel bands in brown paint; surface very chipped and worn.
Cultures/periods: Corinthian; Archaic Greek
Production date: 650BC-600BC
Production place: Made in: Corinth
Excavator/field collector
Findspot: Excavated/Findspot: Amathus, Site E, tomb 241
Materials
Technique: wheel-made; slipped; painted
Dimensions: Height: 7.62 centimetres
Bibliographic references: Murray, Smith and Walters 1900 / Excavations in Cyprus (p. 124, Tomb 241); Gjerstad et al. GGAPC / Greek Geometric and Archaic pottery found in Cyprus (p. 38, nos. 342-345 & pl. XXIV, 4)
Location: Not on display
Subjects
Acquisition name
Funder name
Acquisition date: 1894
Department: Greek and Roman
Registration number: 1894,1101.501

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