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LOT 0495
Etruscan Buffware Aryballos
8TH-7TH CENTURY B.C.
2 1/2 in. (34 grams, 63 mm high).
With a piriform body and narrow foot, deep shoulder and flange rim, strap handle to the rear; the rim and shoulder with radiating strokes, concentric bands to the body and foot, frieze of stylised running hounds below the shoulder. [No Reserve]
ProvenanceAcquired 1980-1990s.
From the private collection of H.N., Milton Keynes, Bedfordshire, UK.
Cf. similar aryballos in the British Museum, museum no.1814,0704.482, in Nicol, W., A catalogue of the Greek and Etruscan Vases in British Museum, Old catalogue, London, 1851, no.356.
FootnotesProto-Corinthian aryballoi of the same type, probably of Etruscan manufacture, in buff-ware decorated with dark metallic, purple-maroon and red-brown bands have been found in the Veii excavations. John Boardman noted that the shape in Corinth barely survives the 7th century, but these small pots are still found in Etruscan graves of the first half, or at least the first quarter, of the 6th century B.C.
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