Terracotta flask, demon & harpy; Corinthian black-figure alabastron; put together from fragments, some restoration in plaster; glaze fired coppery red; main frieze: Boread in Knielauf pose; siren with polos; thick filling ornament; above and below main frieze, 3 horizontals; underneath, rosette of 28 leaves; on shoulder, tongues; dots on rim; rosette on top of mouth.
Donor:
Phoebe Apperson Hearst
Collection place:
Boeotia, Central Greece
Verbatim coll. place:
Corinthian from Boeotia; Greece
Culture or time period:
Greek Archaic Period (700–480 BC)
Collector:
Alfred Emerson
Materials:
Ceramic (material) and Terracotta (clay material)
Object type:
archaeology
Object class:
Alabastra
Accession date:
1904
Department:
Classical Mediterranean
Loans:
S1957-1960 [XXX Wellington]: University Art Museum (UC Berkeley) (1957–1960)