CORINTHIAN POTTERY ARYBALLOS

CORINTHIAN POTTERY ARYBALLOS

Spherical body, neck and mouth complety varnished with brown slip, body and upperpart of disc-shaped mouth decorated with vertical incised ‘melon’ segments, of which five body segments with added white.

Ex priv. coll. C. Stibbe, Netherlands; hence coll. L. v. Roozendaal, Netherlands, acq. 1987 from former owner; thence by descent.
H. 6,5 cm. Small chip from body and mouth, lead seal attached

Middle Corinthiam, c. 600-575 BC

Cf. Nieuw Licht op een oude Stad, Leiden 1986, no. 109, so-called ‘soccer aryballoi’
Cf. Ines Jucker, Aus der Antikensammlung de Bernischen Historischen Museums, Bern 1970, no. 23, p. 33 and pl. 19