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NM Ant 1370 :: alabastron

Object description: Broad, horizontal lip; short neck with concave profile; elongated body; rounded bottom. Light red clay; brown to black glaze; added white. Inside of mouth and underside of lip painted; neck painted; on body two large zones of lattice between bands, and a black and white zigzag band at mid-body; a white meander (?) and a broad band on lower body; bottom painted.

Data elements
References (1)

Inventory number

NM Ant 1370

Serie nummer

Object

Place - Findspot

Chalkis, 1865.

Material

Earthenware; Clay; Pottery

Material, Swedish

Acquisition

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

Description

Broad, horizontal lip; short neck with concave profile; elongated body; rounded bottom. Light red clay; brown to black glaze; added white. Inside of mouth and underside of lip painted; neck painted; on body two large zones of lattice between bands, and a black and white zigzag band at mid-body; a white meander (?) and a broad band on lower body; bottom painted.

Period

Late Archaic-Classical

Time - Manufacturing, earliest

Name - Owner

Nationalmuseum, Stockholm

Description: Nationalmuseum is a publicly owned cultural institution.Nationalmuseum%20is%20a%20publicly%20owned%20cultural%20institution.
Source - http: www.nationalmuseum.se, collections.smvk.se

Comments

Technical School n°192.

Urval Galleriet.

Äldre bild A.Stalteri Marcus. M. Sjöblom.

; An alabastron (pl. alabastra) is a long-bodied vessel, typically with a rounded bottom. It is usually without a handle, although some examples have short handles (or eyes or lugs) through which a string could be attached. The name is derived from alabaster, the white-ground stone that the earliest examples were carved from. They seem to primarily have been a vessel for perfumed oil, as indicated by scenes on vases depicting it being used by women after bathing.

Keyword

NegNo

NM Ant 1370(1).jpg

Publications

CVA Stockholm 2, pl.27:7, fig.126.

PhotoNegNo

MM neg 10374-75.

NM Ant 1370(2).jpg

Pottery Ware

Height / Höjd

Diameter

Dimensions

H 14.5. Ø of rim 4.0.

Loan in - Current

in-1977.0002, Medelhavsmuseet

Condition

Part of lip missing. Surface partly flaky. Worn.

Original register

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