Boeotian black-figure alabastron; put together from four fragments; brownish clay; black paint, partly fired red; body, between diced borders, two swans facing each other, rosette filling ornaments; on neck tongues; on rim dots; on mouth rosette; underneath rosette with central depression.
Donor:
Alfred Emerson and M. Boissé
Collection place:
Boeotia, Central Greece
Culture or time period:
Greek Archaic Period (700–480 BC)
Collector:
Alfred Emerson
Object type:
archaeology
Object class:
Alabastra
Accession date:
1904
Department:
Classical Mediterranean
Loans:
S1969-1970 #65: M. H. de Young Memorial Museum (June 7, 1935–November 7, 1978)