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Alabastron (container for scented oil)

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 References

Washington, 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.

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