Aryballos

Museum number:
8-1791
Permalink:
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Accession number:
Acc.103
Description:
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.
Donor:
Phoebe Apperson Hearst
Collection place:
Tomb F, Poggio Buco, Tuscany
Verbatim coll. place:
Tomb F
Culture or time period:
Etruscan and Etrusco-Corinthian
Collector:
Alfred Emerson
Collection date:
1897
Materials:
Ceramic (material)
Object type:
archaeology
Object class:
Aryballoi (Greek vessels)
Accession date:
1903
Department:
Classical Mediterranean
Images:
Hearst Museum object 1 of 12 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.Hearst Museum object 2 of 12 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.Hearst Museum object 3 of 12 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.Hearst Museum object 4 of 12 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.Hearst Museum object 5 of 12 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.Hearst Museum object 6 of 12 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.Hearst Museum object 7 of 12 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.Hearst Museum object 8 of 12 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.Hearst Museum object 9 of 12 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.Hearst Museum object 10 of 12 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.Hearst Museum object 11 of 12 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.Hearst Museum object 12 of 12 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.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with 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.Documentation associated with 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.

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