MM 1956:019 :: aryballos

Object description: Broad and rather thick disc shaped lip; short and narrow neck; squat globular body; band handle from lip to shoulder; rounded base. Fine, buff clay; buff slip; dark brown and purple paint; incised details. On lip short tongues (partly erased); on handle three horizontal lines; on shoulder slightly curving tongues; on body two felines and a swan, blob rosettes with incised cross as filling ornaments; above and below animal frieze a horizontal line.

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