Overview: handle left

Collection: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Summary: Four birds walking to the right.
Ware: Protocorinthian
Date: ca. 720 BC - ca. 690 BC
Dimensions:

H. 0.055 m.
Primary Citation: Amyx 1988, 15, no. 1
Shape: Aryballos
Ceramic Phase: Early Protocorinthian
Period: Archaic

Decoration Description:

On the shoulder are painted diamonds with incised diameters alternating with open rosettes. The main zone is bordered above and below by three fine horizontal lines. In the main zone are four birds, drawn in outline, walking to the right. In between them are outline rosettes and sigma-shaped squiggles. On the zone at the base are downward-pointing rays.

Shape Description:

Body is a flattened ovoid, cut off for a flat foot. Small, short neck; narrow, flat lip; narrow handle.

Material Description:

Light brown clay with a firm, even texture.

Collection History:

Francis Bartlett Collection, 1903.

Sources Used:

Amyx 1988, 15; Fairbanks 1928, 147, pl. 41

Other Bibliography:

T. Dunbabin and M. Robertson "Some Protocorinthian Vase-Painters" BSA 48 (1953): 173; K. Friis Johansen Les Vases Sicyoniens (Rome, 1966): 19, 52, pl. 5,4; Payne 1931, 7, pl. 1,3; Payne 1933, pl. 5, 2