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Small proto-corinthian alabastron

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Object number
AR2462
Object:        Corinthian alabastron

Material: Yellowish-grayish clay with black painting

Date: Second half 7th century B.C.
Late Proto-Corinthian till early Corinthian period

Description:    Pointed aryballos, broad lip with flat top, long narrow cylindrical neck, broad ribbon handle, flattened shoulder, ovoid body with high greatest diameter and concave near foot, long torus foot.
Lip top and body painted with broad black bands, foot with band of long pointed rays, shoulder and neck unpainted.

Size: Height 64 mm, diameter 38 mm

Condition: Good condition, small restoration at lip. Body undamaged, painting widely preserved. Mounted on a plexiglass base for display.

References: Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum, Stockholm, Medelhavsmuseet and National Museum, Pl. 1.6

Provenance: Acquired 2018 from the German family collection Bergweiler which was formed over several generations. Acquired by Ä. and P. Bergweiler July 19th, 1965 at Antiquitätenhandlung Hermann Zirkel, Cologne, Germany. Reported to have been found in Apulia (Italy).

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