Corinth Object: C 1932 80
Collection:   Corinth
Type:   Object
Name:   C 1932 80
Title:   EARLY CORINTHIAN ARYBALLOS NEAR THE FALSTAFF PAINTER
Category Code:   C
Year:   1932
Object Number:   80
Description:   Round aryballos with rounded bottom, globular body, narrow neck, strap vertical handle.
Decoration:   Black figure style. Main frieze: two padded dancers on front clasp right hands and hole left hands behind them. On side is left plain. Filling ornament: large spoked incised rosettes, incised blobs. The dancers are fat, with bulbous noses and heavy beards. Near the Falstaff Painter (A. Seeberg).
Material:   Buff clay. Brownish black paint with applied purple.
Munsell Color:   10 YR 8/2 (very pale brown)
Condition:   Missing parts. Two joining fragment preserving the entire body. Neck, rim, handle missing. Restored.
Manufacture:   WM
Period:   Early Corinthian (620/615-595/590)
Provenance:   Corinth
Findspot Description:   Temple E. Well 1932-4.
Bibliography:   Corinth 7.1, no. 239; Boulter, AJA 1937, no. 27; Seeberg, CorKV, no. 88; Amyx, CVP, p. 108, no. 3.
Site:   Corinth
City:   Ancient Corinth
Country:   Greece
References:   Image: bw 5197