Alabastron

58-20-3

From: Mediterranean

Curatorial Section: Mediterranean

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Object Number 58-20-3
Current Location Collections Storage
Culture Corinthian
Provenience Mediterranean
Manufacture Location Corinth
Creator Boread Painter
Period Late Corinthian Period
Date Made 570-565 BCE
Section Mediterranean
Materials Ceramic
Iconography Boread
Description

The bottom is flat enough to serve as a secure stand-surface. Small omphalos in a depression at center. Small close-set tongues based on narrow line encircling broad band at aperture on disk. Handle glazed. Tongues on neck. Decoration on front of body: Boread, bearded with forelocks, careful incision, plentiful added purple on face, garments, feathers of wings. At back under handle a large standing bird right, head turned back. Thick filling ornament in field, incised rosettes.

Height 22.8 cm
Outside Diameter 10.9 cm
Credit Line Gift of the Volunteers of America, 1958

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