Siren Vase (container for scented oil)

Place of OriginGreece, Corinth

Dateabout 580-570 BCE

DimensionsH: 3 17/32 in. (9.0 cm); Diam (body): 2 3/16 in. (5.6 cm); L: 3 5/32 in. (8.0 cm)

MediumMolded, slip-decorated earthenware

ClassificationCeramics

Credit LinePurchased with funds from the Libbey Endowment, Gift of Edward Drummond Libbey

Object number

1967.133

Not on View

Published ReferencesMünzen und Medaillen Auktion 34, Basel, 6. Mai 1967, p. 50 and pl. 26, lot no. 105.

Riefstahl. R.M., "Greek Vases," Toledo Museum of Art Museum News, vol. 11, no. 2, 1968, p. 30, repr.

Bloesch, H. ed., Das Tier in der Antike, Zurich, Archäologisches Institut der Universität, Sept. 21 to Nov. 17, 1974, p. 44 f and pl. 45, no. 266.

Boulter, Cedric G., and Kurt T. Luckner, Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum, Toledo Museum of Art, fasc. 2, U.S.A. fasc 20, Mainz, 1984, pl. 76, nos. 1-5.

Amyx, Darrell A., Corinthian vase-painting of the archaic period, Berkeley, 1988, p. 528, n. 353.

Biers, William R. and others, Lost scents: investigations of Corinthian "plastic" vases by gas chromatography-mass spectrometry, (MASCA Research Paper in Science and Archaeology, vol. 11, 1994), Philadelphia, 1994, p. 11, 24, 26-27, 48-49.

Lexicon iconographicum mythologiae classicae, (LIMC), Zürich, 1981-1999, vol. VIII, p. 1095, no. 17b.

Comparative ReferencesSee also Ducat, J. "Les vases plastiques corinthiens," Bulletin de Correspondence Hellenique, vol. 87, 1963, pp. 431-458.

cf. Baur, P.V.C., Catalogue of the Rebecca Darlington Stoddard Collection of Greek and Italian Vases in Yale University, New Haven, 1922, p. 64f, no. 92, figs. 15-16.

cf. Wallenstein, Korinthische Plastik des 7, und 6. Jhdts. v. Chr, Bonn, 1971, p. 132 and pl. 14, 3-4 (for a siren vase with a four-spoke pattern on loan to the Antikenmuseum, Basel)