Italo-Corinthian Aryballos

Title: Italo-Corinthian Aryballos
Inventory Number: A0014
Date Acquired: 1968
Source: George Allen, Hesperia Art
Provenance: Italy
From Date: -599
To Date: -500
Description: Small full-bodied aryballos. Main decoration around body between two stripes: warrior opposite handle and two grazing deer around back and sides, blob rosettes in field; figures decorated with incision and added red, rosettes with incision only. Base decorated with stripes radiating from central annulus. Radiating elongated drops on shoulder; irregular dots on edge of rim, surface of rim decorated with 3 concentric stripes with elongated triangles radiating inward from exterior stripe; two broad stripes on exterior handle.
State of Preservation: General wear of paint on all surfaces and some minor chipping.
Height: 8.11 cm
Max Diameter: 6.85 cm
Rim Diameter: 4.07 cm
Color: Clay body 10YR 8/3 (very pale brown); primary decoration 10YR 3/2 (very dark grayish-brown); added red on figures and central stripe on rim 10R 3/3 (dusky red).
Type: vessel
Material: fired clay