Miniature bronze aryballos

Curved base, globular body, short, collar neck, everted, double-stepped, banded rim. Vertical strap handle, slightly raised above the lip where it grows, ending in the upper part of the body. The point at which it joins the rim features plastic decoration of an astragalus motif.

This elegant vase was possibly produced in a workshop of Corinth, or it may be a local imitation of a Corinthian model.

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  • Ephorate of Antiquities of Piraeus and Islands
  • Aegina, Archaeological Museum of Kolona, inv. n. 8891
  • End of 6th – beginning of 5th century BC
  • H. 0.39 m. Diam. 0.35 m. Rim diam. 0.24 m. Spout diam. 0.11 m Weight 78.7 gr.
  • Bronze
  • Provenance: Aegina, retrieved in a grave
Bibliography
  • Beazley, J. D, (1927/1928) Aryballos, BSA 29, 187-215.
  • Brommer, F. (1969). Aryballoi aus Bronze. In P. Zazoff (Ed.) Opus Nobile Festschrift Zum 60. Geburstag von Ulf Jantzen, Wiesbaden, pp. 17-23.
  • Payne, H. (1931). Necrocorinthia: A study of corinthian art in the archaic period, Oxford: Clarendon Press.
  • Παπασπύρου, Ε. (2006). Υπόγειοι Λαξευτοί Τάφοι της Αίγινας, Α.Ε. 145, Αθήνα.
Miniature bronze aryballos
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