Object Description
An elaborate ancient Greek, Corinthian pointed, terracotta aryballos with painted decoration. The vessel features a slim and tapering body, which rests on a small, circular foot. The body leads to expanding shoulders, a squat rounded neck and wide, flattened rim. A flat, rectangular handles joins the rim to the shoulder. The aryballos is richly decorated in a more stylised, geometric pattern. The body features a large frieze of spiraling palmettes, the background colour a rich and deep black glaze. Two larger palmettes occupy the centre, with six fan-tails distinguishing them from their smaller counterparts. Burgundy pigment is used to highlight various swirling tendrils. The frieze is flanked by three concentric narrow bands, leading again to flanking petal sprays, decorating the shoulders and tapering point. The flattened rim is decorated with a swirling spiral motif, its spokes painted with alternating pigments of cream, burgundy and black.
Date: Circa late 7th century – 6th century BC