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Aryballos (Italo-Corinthian ware)
600 BCE

Medium
earthenware

Measurements
14.3 × 10.0 × 10.1 cm

Credit Line
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Purchased, 1893
© Public Domain

Gallery location
19th Century European Paintings Gallery
Level 2, NGV International

Artwork Details

Place/s of Execution
Corinth, Greece

Accession Number
80N-D1A

Department
Antiquities

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Physical description
Globular-bodied vessel with a disc mouth and single strap handle. Decorated with brown and red paint, brown rays on the top of the mouth and shoulder and on the body bands of brown with a central red band. On the base and foot are alternate black and light brown bands. Clay yellow/pale buff.