Object name: Aryballos / Object class: Aryballoi (Greek vessels) / Collection place: Tomb F, Poggio Buco, Tuscany - Hearst Museum Portal Search Results

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Hearst Museum object titled Aryballos, accession number 8-1794, described as Etrusco-Corinthian aryballos, with tiny foot, similar to 8-1793. Description from Matteucig (1951): Aryballos; height; 10.4 cm; diameter; 5 cm; (see Matteucig's plate XVI, 15). Italo-Corinthian. Clay pale cream; reddish-cream slip; lustrous dark brown and violet paint. Pointed aryballos. On lip, petal pattern; on flat handle, three brown bands; one brown band at base of neck; on shoulder, brown tongue pattern; then three bands, brown, violet, brown; reserved zone with brown leaves; violet band; another reserved zone with brown leaves; three more bands, brown, violet, brown; reserved zone; three narrow brown bands; reserved zone; point and foot solid brown. Cf. Mingazzini, Pl. XXIX, 5.

Hearst Museum object titled Aryballos, accession number 8-1795, described as Etrusco-Corinthian aryballos. Description from Matteucig (1951): Aryballos; height; 10 cm; diameter; 5 cm (see Matteucig's plate XVI, 16). Italo-Corinthian. Clay pink cream; cream slip; light brown and violet paint. Pointed aryballos. On lip, three bands, outer ones brown, middle one, violet; edge of lip, brown; on flat handle, three brown bands; brown band at base of neck; on shoulder, tongue pattern; below this, a series of five alternating brown and violet bands, divided by reserved spaces; a reserved space; two narrow brown bands; another reserved space; point and foot solid brown; three incised lines above foot. Cf. Peabody Museum, Cambridge, Mass., no. 40-4269.

Hearst Museum object titled Aryballos, accession number 8-1791, described as Etrusco-Corinthian squat aryballos. Description from Matteucig (1951): Aryballos; height: 8.2 cm; diameter: 6.9 cm (see Matteucig's plate XVI, 10). Italo-Corinthian. Clay red dish cream; pale-cream slip; dark-brown paint. Round aryballos. On lip, three concentric circles; around edge of lip, a row of dots; two horizontal bands on flat handle; on shoulder, tongue pattern; then two lions conjoined in head between two bands; rosettes; behind lions there seems to have been a bird (duck), as shown by incised plumage. Most of the rosettes and filling ornaments have disappeared. Below lion's head, an eight-petal rosette of which only the center can be seen. Cf. Critica à'Arte, I, 1935, fig. 23.