Sherd
Aryballos
73-25-31
From: Greece | Argolid | Argive Heraeum
Curatorial Section: Mediterranean
| Object Number | 73-25-31 |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Culture | Corinthian |
| Provenience | Greece | Argolid | Argive Heraeum |
| Manufacture Location | Corinth |
| Creator | Painter of Louvre E 380 |
| Period | Middle Proto-Corinthian II | Late Proto-Corinthian |
| Date Made | 655-645 BCE |
| Section | Mediterranean |
| Materials | Ceramic |
| Iconography | Goose | Hound |
| Description | Ovoid aryballos fragment. Very small ring foot. Walls curve quickly to swelling body. Lower wall very thick. Extremely hard buff clay. Surface covered with a self slip. Decoration in black and dilute glaze. Lower wall, bottom to top: 2 wheel-painted lines; zone of figures running to left (L to R, goose, dog, part of hound). 6 fine lines under frieze. "Heraeum" in pencil on in/terior. |
| Height | 2.8 cm |
| Width | 3.8 cm |
| Thickness | 0.5 cm |
| Outside Diameter | 3.9 cm |
| Credit Line | Gift of Robert H. Bates, 1973 |
| Other Number | L-224-42 - Old Loan Number |
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