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NM Ant 1343 :: exaleiptron

Object description: Incurved rim with straight wall; low, convex body; flaring ring base. Soft, buff clay; matt, buff slip; lustrous, black paint, almost entirely misfired to red. Interior painted; vertical strokes on rim wall; on upper body frieze between bands: four pairs of opposed sphinxes with long hair and cross-hatched polos, between two of the pairs are large lotus-palmette ornaments - incised details, blobs and rosettes as filling ornaments; on mid/lower body a similar frieze but without the lotus-palmette ornaments; below this a band and base rays; base painted; broad band on bottom.

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Inventory number

NM Ant 1343

Serie nummer

810

Object

exaleiptron

Country - Findspot

Greece : Europe

Place - Findspot

Phaleron (Attica).

Material

Earthenware; Clay; Pottery

Material, Swedish

Keramik

Exhibitions

Gustaf III:s Museum of Antiquities, The Royal Palace, Stockholm.

Acquisition

Deposited in 1887 by the Technical School, Stockholm, in the National Museum.

Description

Incurved rim with straight wall; low, convex body; flaring ring base. Soft, buff clay; matt, buff slip; lustrous, black paint, almost entirely misfired to red. Interior painted; vertical strokes on rim wall; on upper body frieze between bands: four pairs of opposed sphinxes with long hair and cross-hatched polos, between two of the pairs are large lotus-palmette ornaments - incised details, blobs and rosettes as filling ornaments; on mid/lower body a similar frieze but without the lotus-palmette ornaments; below this a band and base rays; base painted; broad band on bottom.

Time - Manufacturing, earliest