On view
Ancient Mediterranean Art
Globular aryballos (jar for holding oil),
ca. 720–700 BCE
Attributed to the Naples Sigmatoid Group
Greek
Proto-Corinthian Period, Early Proto-Corinthian Period, ca. 720–690 BCE, ca. 720–625 BCE
y1960-28
Information
Title
Globular aryballos (jar for holding oil)
Dates
ca. 720–700 BCE
Maker
Attributed to the Naples Sigmatoid Group
Medium
Ceramic
Dimensions
h. 6.3 cm, diam. 5.8 cm (2 1/2 x 2 5/16 in.)
Credit Line
Museum purchase
Object Number
y1960-28
Place Made
Europe, Greece, Corinth
Culture
Period
Subject
Purchased from Mathias Komor in 1960.
- Francis Follin Jones, "A Protocorinthian Geometric Aryballos," Record of the Art Museum, Princeton University 20, no. 1 (1961): 22–23., p. 23 (illus.)
- J. L. Benson, "Corinthian vases in the Art Museum Collection", Record of the Art Museum, Princeton University 31, no. 2 (1972): p. 8-19., fig. 15, p. 11 (illus.)
- J.L. Benson, "An early Protocorinthian workshop and the source of its motifs", Babesch. Bulletin antieke beschaving 61 (1986): p. 2, 4; fig. 4., p. 2 and 4; fig. 4
- J.L. Benson, Earlier Corinthian workshops: a study of Corinthian geometric and Protocorinthian stylistic groups, (Amsterdam: Allard Pierson Museum, 1989)., p. 23
