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| Collection: | | Corinth | | Type: | | Object | | Name: | | CP 2038 | | Title: | | EARLY CORINTHIAN ARYBALLOS | | Category: | | Pottery | | Category Code: | | CP | | Object Number: | | 2038 | | Description: | | Globular aryballos with round bottom, globular body, narrow neck flaring to broad horizontal outturned rim, broad horizontal strap handle from shoulder to lip. | | Decoration: | | Red-brown glaze: bottom: solid circle, 2 concentric rings; frieze; shoulder with tongues; rim: 3 concentric rings, dots on lip, 3 horizontal bars on handle. Frieze: under handle, cupboard with 4 shelves, 2 aryballoi on 2nd, reels of thread (?) on top; to rt., woman to rt., weaving at vertical loom; long hair to below waist, wearing chiton and necklace; holds 2 rods. At rt. 2nd woman facing lt., standing on stool (?) with shorter hair, unbelted garment, holding 2 forked tools against loom. Loom: 2 uprights and horizontal cross-bar, loomweights holding warp threads, length of woven cloth at top with incised cross-hatching. Surface damaged to rt. of her: 3rd woman facing lt., possibly holding loomweights; 4th woman, very tall facing rt.; small 5th woman facing 4th; behind, 2nd loom like 1st. Blob f.o., incised details. | | Mythology: | | Contest between Athena and Arachne | | Attributes: | | Looms | | Material: | | Buff-tan fine clay, pink at core, 2 coarse exploded lime inclusions. | | Condition: | | Complete profile. Intact except for ca. 1/3 rim. | | Manufacture: | | WM | | Dimensions Actual: | | H00.065 D00.58 (max) D00.038 (rim) | | Period: | | Early Corinthian (620/615-595/590) | | Chronology: | | Late EC or Middle Corinthian (style) | | Area: | | Provenance Unknown | | Context: | | Provenance Unknown, Bought by Weinbergs from dealer in Athens; said to | | Provenance: | | Corinth | | Bibliography: | | Weinbergs, G. and S., Aegean and the Near East, Goldman Fest., 1958, pp. 262-267 | | Site: | | Corinth | | City: | | Ancient Corinth | | Country: | | Greece | | References: | | Monument: Provenance Unknown
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Basket: Provenance Unknown, Bought by Weinbergs from dealer in Athens; said to
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