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Aryballos

Greek
Late Corinthian Period
Place of Manufacture: Greece, Corinthia, Corinth; Findspot: Vulci

Medium/Technique Ceramic
Dimensions Height: 6 cm (2 3/8 in.); diameter: 6 cm (2 3/8 in.)
Credit Line Henry Lillie Pierce Fund
Accession Number98.909
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsVessels

Catalogue Raisonné Fairbanks, Vases (MFA), no. 436.
DescriptionClay greenish yellow. Body divided in vertical sections colored alternately dark brown, purple and white. Broken and repaired with slight restoration. Most of lip gone.

Corinthian (Linear)
ProvenanceBy 1889: Prince Torlonia Collection (excavated at Vulci, 1889: Gsell, Fouilles de Vulci, tomb no. XLIX); by date unknown: with Edward Perry Warren (according to Warren's records: [one of the] Contents incomplete of an early VIth Cent tomb at Vulci [containing MFA vases 98.901-909, 912-914, 916, 920]); 1898: purchased by MFA from Edward Perry Warren for $ 69,618.13 (this figure is the total price for MFA 98.641-98.940)