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Aryballos (Etrusco-Corinthian ware)
600 BCE

Medium
fired clay
Measurements
11.5 × 10.8 × 10.9 cm
Place/s of Execution
Italy
Accession Number
80K-D1A
Department
Antiquities
Credit Line
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Purchased, 1893
© Public Domain
This digital record has been made available on NGV Collection Online through the generous support of Digitisation Champion Ms Carol Grigor through Metal Manufactures Limited
Gallery location
Not on display
Physical description
Globular vessel with a round base, disc mouth and short strap handle from the top of the body to the rim. Decorated with red and brown paint: red on top of the mouth and brown rays on the shoulder above horizontal bands of alternate red and brown. On the central body a frieze of animal silhouettes (dogs?) running to the right and below this bands of brown and red. The handle is banded in red and black. The clay is pink-buff, similar to 80M-D1A.