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Hearst Museum object titled Bombylios, accession number 8-1792, described as Pear-shaped bombylios. Description from Matteucig (1951): Alabastron; height: 7.9 cm; diameter: 4.7 cm (see Matteucig's plate XVI, 11). Italo-Corinthian. Clay reddish cream; cream slip; dark brown and violet paint. Pyriform alabastron. On lip, three concentric circles; the outer two, brown, the middle one, violet; around lip, brown band; on neck, tongue pattern; below thick handle with hole pierced in it, three bands, brown, violet, brown; then a zone of brown dots; three more bands, brown, violet, brown. Cf. Montelius, pl. 209, no. 5 from Pitigliano; Mon. Ant., XXII, 1913, Pl. LV, 4 from Cumae; Not. Sc., 1922, p. 218, fig. 3e, from Veii; Not. Sc., 1938, p. 121, fig. 1ſ, from Chiusi; Boll. St. Med. no. 4–5, 1933–1934, Pl. I, fig. 5, from Ardea; Mingazzini, Pl. XXIX, 7; Robinson, Toronto Vases, Pl. XI, 155; Langlotz, Pl. CCXXV, 765; C.V.A., Oxford, fasc. 2, III C, pl. 4, no. 18; C.V.A., Louvre, fasc. 9, III C b, pl. 1 entire, especially, nos. 1, 2; C.W.A., Fogg Museum, fasc. 1, pl. 6, no. 9; Museo Archeologico, Florence, from Poggio Buco.

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