| Collection: | Corinth | |
| Type: | Object | |
| Name: | C 1940 259 | |
| Title: | EARLY CORINTHIAN ALABASTRON | |
| Category Code: | C | |
| Year: | 1940 | |
| Object Number: | 259 | |
| Description: | Aryballos with rounded bottom, ovoid body with max. diam. near bottom, tapering to narrow neck, horizontal outturned rim, small vertical handle attached to top of body and underside of rim. | |
| Decoration: | Rim: rosette of red and black tongues on top; dots on edge; body: black tongues on shoulder; animal frieze framed above and below by 2 black lines: 2 lions facing, owl to lt. between them; tails of lions meet behind below handle. Red overpaint on animals, dots on owl's wing; field thickly sown with solid incised rosettes of varying sizes. Bottom: tongues. Amyx: Red Dot Painter | |
| Material: | Fine gray-buff clay. | |
| Condition: | Complete or intact. Complete. | |
| Manufacture: | C18 WM | |
| Dimensions Actual: | H00.17 D00.093 (max) | |
| Period: | Early Corinthian (620/615-595/590) | |
| Chronology: | Early Corinthian (610-590?) | |
| Area: | New Museum east | |
| Context: | NB187 P257 | |
| Provenance: | Corinth | |
| Bibliography: | Weinberg, Hesperia 1948 P218 D15 Pl.79Amyx, CVP P86 | |
| Site: | Corinth | |
| City: | Ancient Corinth | |
| Country: | Greece | |
| References: | Publication: Amyx, Corinthian Vase-Painting of the ... 1988 Publication: Weinberg, Hesperia 17:3, 1948 Monument: New Museum east Images (15) Basket: NB187 P257 |
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