CLARK COLLECTION OF ANCIENT ART:

ALABASTRA AND ARYBALLOI




EC.53.18

Culture: Apulian?

Item: Squat Alabastron

Date: Later 4th century BCE

Description: Net. Roughly hemispherical with flat bottom, narrow neck and broad, flat lip. Decorated with overall cross-hatchings in fired black; added color including a laurel band, now mostly lacking.

Dimensions:
h: 3 3/4 in. (9.5 cm)
d: 2 3/4 in. (7.0 cm)

� 1998 Bock Studio, Ripon, WI
EC.53.26

Culture: Italo-Corinthian

Item: Alabastron

Date: 6th century BCE

Description: Of roughly cylindrical form with flat bottom and bulbous shoulder, short narrow neck and flat lip; one narrow ribbon handle attached at shoulder and lip. Decorated on brownish slip with horizontal bands alternating with dotted lines. For alabastra of very similar shape see J. W. Hayes, Greek and Greek-Style Painted and Plain Pottery in the Royal Ontario Museum (Toronto 1992) 94 n. 108; T. B. Rasmussen, Bucchero Pottery from Southern Etruria (Cambridge 1979) 210 fig. 334.

Dimensions:
h: 7 5/8 in. (19.4 cm)
d: 2 5/8 in. (6.7 cm)

EC.53.27

Culture: Italo-Corinthian

Item: Aryballos

Date: 6th century BCE

Description: Of roughly spherical form with two registers of running quadrupeds, possibly hounds and deer, in black slip. One ring handle at neck.

Dimensions:
h: 4 in. (10.2 cm)
d: 3 1/2 in. (8.9 cm)

EC.53.28

Culture: Italo-Corinthian

Item: Aryballos

Date: 6th century BCE

Description: Yellow clay. Brown or black bands around center of body. Rounded base.

Dimensions:
h: 3 in. (7.6 cm)
d: 2 1/2 in. (6.4 cm)

EC.53.29

Culture: Corinthian

Item: Miniature ovoid piriform aryballos

Date: c. 650-630 BCE

Description: Middle or Late Proto-Corinthian style decoration. Yellow clay with wide lip and one handle. Brown or black bands with vertical wavy lines in center and ray pattern on bottom.

Dimensions:
h: 2 11/16 in. (6.8 cm)
d: 1 1/2 in. (3.8 cm)

EC.53.30

Culture: Italo-Corinthian

Item: Aryballos

Date: 6th century

Description: Yellow clay. Wide lip. Black and dark purple bands and lines. One handle.

Dimensions:
h: 4 1/2 in. (11.4 cm)
d: 2 1/4 in. (5.7 cm)

EC.53.40

Culture: South Italian

Item: Miniature alabastron

Date: Late 4th century BCE

Description: Brown-yellow clay. Decorated with black bands around neck and base. Simple leaf design at waist.

Dimensions:
h: 3 1/8 in. (7.9 cm)
d: 1 1/4 in. (3.2 cm)

EC.53.46

Culture: South Italian

Item: Pointed-foot amphoriskos

Date: 4th century BCE

Description: Small with two handles and a pointed base. No decoration.

Dimensions:
h: 6 1/2 in. (16.5 cm)
d: 2 1/4 in. (5.6 cm)

Please email Professor Eddie Lowry with any questions or comments.