aryballos
- Description
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Body sherd of Corinthian black-figured pottery globular aryballos; exterior, from top: part of wide black band; black-figure decoration consisting of marching warriors (from left, round shield, with added red centre and dots in added white on rim, and leg of warrior to left; at centre and right, two warriors with round shields with red and white decoration marching right); two narrow black bands.
- Production date
- 575BC-550BC (circa)
- Dimensions
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Height: 3.80 centimetres
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Thickness: 0.30 centimetres
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Width: 5.30 centimetres
- Curator's comments
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Object owned and held by the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge. This record is included in the British Museum database as part of the Museum’s Naukratis Project, a research collaboration that aims to virtually re-unite finds from the ancient port city of Naukratis, now distributed over 80 museums worldwide.
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There are limestone inclusions visible on the surface of the vessel.
For parallels regarding the round shields, see British Museum 1907,1201.692 from Ephesus.
- Location
- Not on display
- Department
- External
- Additional IDs
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Miscellaneous number: GR.254.1894 (Accession Number)