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Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Alabastron, accession number 8-873, described as Alabastron, geese
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Alabastron, accession number 8-3337, described as Corinthian black-figure alabastron; intact; glaze worn, especially in area of sphinx; remains of red paint on sphinx, swan, and one rosette; on body: sphinx, wearing polos, seated to left, swan to left, incised rosettes; underneath, rosette with slight central depression; on rim, dots; round mouth, tongues.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Alabastron, accession number 8-3355, described as Corinthian black-figure alabastron; top broken off and repaired; wide gouge in surface; glaze worn; added red paint; on body: 2 confronted panthers; filling of dot-rosettes and rings; deep hollow underfoot, around it rosette; tongues on shoulder; on rim dots; round mouth dense tongues.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Alabastron, accession number 8-3369, described as Corinthian black-figure alabastron; intact; surface abraded; glaze browned and very crackly; remains purple-red paint on cocks; on body: pair of confronted cocks; incised rosettes in field; underneath, rosette; on neck and mouth, tongues; on rim, dots.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Alabastron, accession number 8-3368, described as Corinthian black-figure alabastron; complete; top broken off repaired; round hollow underneath; copious use of red paint for animals; on body, sphinx and goose; sphinx wears fillet and polos; incised rosettes in field; rosette underneath; on neck, tongues; on mouth, red and black tongues; on rim, dots.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Alabastron, accession number 8-6683, described as Etrusco-Corinthian black-figure alabastron; put together from a few large pieces; dull buff clay; added red paint; two confronted sphinxes, with two Geese between them; a third goose below sphinx at 1; two more geese at back; incised rosettes in field; tongues on shoulder; rosette underneath; dots on rim and handle; tongues on mouth. Height 17.6 cm; diameter 9.5 cm.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Alabastron, accession number 8-3303, described as Corinthian black-figure alabastron; badly made: very thick and heavy, dents, bulges and cracks; most of glaze has fired brick red; added red paint; large cock to right, two rosettes in front of him, between head and wing, lotus; underneath vase, rosette; on shoulder, tongues; on rim, dots; around mouth, dense tongues.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Alabastron, accession number 8-3370, described as Corinthian black-figure alabastron; complete; approximately top half broken off and repaired; small piece missing in crack; paint worn; remains of red paint on lions and eagle; on body: eagle flying to left between 2 confronted lions; incised rosettes in field; rosette on base; on mouth and neck, tongues; on rim, dots.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Alabastron, accession number 8-3362, described as Corinthian black-figure alabastron; intact; glaze fired coppery brown, not well-preserved; some added red paint (cocks, tongues); on body, snake flanked by two cocks, incised rosettes; under vase, dot-rosette with central depression; on neck, red and black tongues; on rim, dots; on mouth, red and black tongues.
Hearst Museum object titled Alabastron, accession number 8-354, described as tc, 9 warriors

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