Alabastron (container for scented oil)
Alabastron (container for scented oil)
Artist
A painter near the Double-bodied Sphinx Painter
(Greek)
Place of OriginCorinth, Greece
Dateabout 625 BCE
Dimensions6 1/2 × 3 1/2 × 2 in. (16.5 × 8.8 × 5 cm)
Mediumearthenware
ClassificationCeramics
Credit LineMuseum Purchase
Object number
1917.132
Not on View
DescriptionWheel-thrown, slip-decorated earthenware with incised details.
Published ReferencesWashington, Sheldon, "Greek Vase Painting," Toledo Museum of Art Museum News, vol. 15, no. 4, Winter 1962, repr. p. 76.
Riefstahl, R. M., "Greek Vases," Toledo Museum of Art Museum News, vol. 11, no. 2, 1968, repr. p. 31.
Lakofsky, C., Pottery, Dubuque, 1968, p. 84, fig. 84.
Boulter, Cedric G. and Kurt T. Luckner, Corpus vasorum antiquorum: Toledo Museum of Art, fasc. 2, U.S.A. fasc. 20, Mainz, 1984, pl. 73, nos. 1-4.
Amyx, D.A., Corinthian Vase Painters, Berkeley, p. 303, no. b-3.
Lexicon iconographicum mythologiae classicae (LIMC), Zürich, 1981-1999, vol. VIII, pt. 1, p. 1153, no. 29.
A painter related to the Columbus Painter and the Luxur Group
about 600 BCE
A painter near the Edinburgh Painter
about 510-500 BCE
The Acheloos Painter, Leagros Group
about 510-500 BCE
Manner of the Kleophrades Painter
about 490 BCE
Providence Painter
about 470 BCE
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