Corinthian Terracotta Pyriform Aryballos
Corinthian Terracotta Pyriform Aryballos
Corinthian Terracotta Pyriform Aryballos
Corinthian Terracotta Pyriform Aryballos
Corinthian Terracotta Pyriform Aryballos
Corinthian Terracotta Pyriform Aryballos
Corinthian Terracotta Pyriform Aryballos
Corinthian Terracotta Pyriform Aryballos
Corinthian Terracotta Pyriform Aryballos
Corinthian Terracotta Pyriform Aryballos
Corinthian Terracotta Pyriform Aryballos
Corinthian Terracotta Pyriform Aryballos
Corinthian Terracotta Pyriform Aryballos
Corinthian Terracotta Pyriform Aryballos
Corinthian Terracotta Pyriform Aryballos
Corinthian Terracotta Pyriform Aryballos
Corinthian Terracotta Pyriform Aryballos
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Corinthian Terracotta Pyriform Aryballos

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Middle Corinthian Ca. 650-600 BC

Greek Corinthian Pottery Alabastron (Tall Perfume/Oil Flask), Corinth, Peloponnese, Middle to Late Corinthian Period, ca. 600–570 BC. Wheel-thrown pale buff/cream Corinthian clay of tall elongated pear-shaped (piriform) body tapering to a rounded base, with a short cylindrical neck capped by a wide flat disc-shaped mouth decorated on top with black radiating patterns and dot border, pierced through the neck with a small single string-suspension hole (for carrying on a cord rather than a handle). The body is painted in brown-black and added purple-red slip with fine incised linework, showing a principal figural subject of a bird-bodied siren or long-necked bird with fully outstretched wings (wing feathers rendered in crisp parallel incised hatching with red infill), a second bird on the opposite side, and rosette filling ornament across the field; a tongue pattern at the shoulder. The disc mouth and neck retain an old paper collection label inscribed "7127" in red/orange ink. Size: 3⅜ in. (8.6 cm) H. Intact with typical paint abrasions and flaking to the figural field, mineral accretions, and losses to the black slip; chip to disc rim edge. Provenance: Mr. T.D. (Tony D.), Cannonville, Utah, acquired in the 1970s; earlier collection number 7127 inscribed on an old paper label to the mouth

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