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    "localId": "94972",
    "label": "Protocorinthian (Early Black-Figure) Aryballos (Oil Flask): Animals",
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    "id": "94972",
    "contentType": "object",
    "title": "Protocorinthian (Early Black-Figure) Aryballos (Oil Flask): Animals",
    "description": "Tongues encircle the rim, shoulder, and base of this small oil vessel, while two carefully incised bands of scales frame an animal frieze. Here, amid dot rosettes, are a bull, dog, and goat, all facing right, and a left-facing lion with head turned back. The black glaze has misfired red in many places, while added red enlivens numerous tongues, scales, and internal details.",
    "date": "c. 650–640 BCE",
    "citation": "https://clevelandart.org/art/1915.532",
    "rights": "CC0",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
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    "imageCount": 1,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensionsRaw": "Overall: 13.7 cm (5 3/8 in.)",
    "cul": [
        "Greek, Corinthian"
    ],
    "accession": "1915.532"
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    "tec": "ceramic",
    "tombstone": "Protocorinthian (Early Black-Figure) Aryballos (Oil Flask): Animals, c. 650–640 BCE. Greek, Corinthian. Ceramic; overall: 13.7 cm (5 3/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of the John Huntington Art and Polytechnic Trust, 1915.532",
    "collection": "GR - Greek",
    "didYouKnow": "Artists may have used a compass-like tool to create the intricate scale patterns.",
    "citations": [
        {
            "citation": "Beazley Archive. n.d. <em>Beazley Archive Pottery Database</em>. Oxford: Beazley Archive.",
            "page_number": "BAPD 1001464",
            "url": "http://www.beazley.ox.ac.uk/record/3DD5D707-04D4-4C0A-AFA1-ADDE05BB6E99"
        },
        {
            "citation": "R. H. \"Recent Accessions of Greek Pottery.\" <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em> 10, no. 10 (1923): 178-91.",
            "url": "http://www.jstor.org/stable/25136705."
        },
        {
            "citation": "Benson, J. L. \"Some Notes on Corinthian Vase-Painters.\" <em>American Journal of Archaeology</em> 60, no. 3 (1956).",
            "page_number": "p. 221, Pl.69, Figs. 7-8",
            "url": "https://www.jstor.org/stable/500149"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Boulter, C. G., Jenifer Neils, and Gisela Walberg. <em>Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum.</em> Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1971.",
            "page_number": "p. 4, plate 3, 2-5",
            "url": "http://www.beazley.ox.ac.uk/XDB/ASP/browseCVARecord.asp?id={3DD5D707-04D4-4C0A-AFA1-ADDE05BB6E99}&startRef="
        }
    ],
    "url": "https://clevelandart.org/art/1915.532",
    "creditline": "Gift of the John Huntington Art and Polytechnic Trust",
    "updatedAt": "2026-05-29 05:03:59.815000",
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    "dept": "Greek and Roman Art",
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