Sherd
Aryballos
73-25-35
From: Greece | Argolid | Argive Heraeum (uncertain)
Curatorial Section: Mediterranean
| Object Number | 73-25-35 |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Culture | Corinthian |
| Provenience | Greece | Argolid | Argive Heraeum (uncertain) |
| Manufacture Location | Corinth |
| Period | Middle Proto-Corinthian II | Late Proto-Corinthian |
| Date Made | 655-645 BCE |
| Section | Mediterranean |
| Materials | Ceramic |
| Description | Ovoid aryballos fragment. Profile section, base to upper wall. Hard buff clay. Surface slipped. Decoration in adherent black glaze. Edge of base glazed. Wall, bottom to top: 2 broad wheel-painted bands; 4 wheel-painted lines; zone of animals: back leg and front part of quadruped (probably a hare), a "Z" in the space between the animal and tail (?) and back leg of next in frieze; 3 wheel-painted lines. Exterior surface blackened, presumably by fire. "H" in pencil on interior. |
| Height | 4.8 cm |
| Outside Diameter | 1.2 cm |
| Credit Line | Gift of Robert H. Bates, 1973 |
| Other Number | L-224-46 - Old Loan Number |
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