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Source 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.
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Document identity
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94972
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Protocorinthian (Early Black-Figure) Aryballos (Oil Flask): Animals
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94972
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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
rights
CC0
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CC0
language
en
wikidata
Q60740122
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Ceramic
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dimensionsRaw
Overall: 13.7 cm (5 3/8 in.)
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Greek, Corinthian
accession
1915.532
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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
citation
R. H. "Recent Accessions of Greek Pottery." <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em> 10, no. 10 (1923): 178-91.
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
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
creditline
Gift of the John Huntington Art and Polytechnic Trust
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2026-05-29 05:03:59.815000
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94972
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Greek and Roman Art
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GR - Greek
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ceramic
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