aryballos
- Museum number
- 1965,0930.980
- Description
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Body (reconstructed from numerous fragments with two unjoined, and added plaster) of Corinthian blister ware pottery squat aryballos with base of neck and handle root; exterior: trace of grey wash; squat body covered in incised vertical lines extending from junction of neck and body towards wide curved edge of the flat base.
- Production date
- 375BC-350BC (circa)
- Dimensions
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Diameter: 8.90 centimetres (base)
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Height: 4.20 centimetres
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Thickness: 0.30 centimetres
- Curator's comments
- For parallels, see G.R. Edwards, Corinth: Results of Excavations Conducted by the American School of Classical Studies at Athens, Vol. VII, Part III, 1975, 148, no. 768; I. McPhee and E.G. Pemberton, Corinth: Results of Excavations Conducted by the American School of Classical Studies at Athens, Vol. VII, Part 6, pl. 34, no. VII-15.
The remains of the handle root indicate that the handle was affixed to the vessel after the incision marks were created on the walls of the vessel.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition notes
- Previously unregistered.
- Department
- Greek and Roman
- Registration number
- 1965,0930.980