Aryballos Jar
Greek
650-600 BCE
Terracotta, black and purple on buff
Overall: 3 3/4 × 2 3/16 in. (9.5 × 5.5 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Mrs. Harold R. Bruce, Class of 1923HW
168.65.24395
Geography
Place Made: Corinth, Greece, Europe
Period
1000 BCE-1 CE
Object Name
Pottery
Research Area
Classical World
Not on view
Course History
CLST 6, Introduction to Classical Archaeology, Julie Hruby, Fall 2013
CLST 21, From Disaster to Triumph: Greek Archaeology from the Destruction of Mycenae to the Persian Wars, Julie Hruby, Winter 2014
Provenance
Collected by Oliver W. Cook, Worcester, Massachusetts, about 1910; given to his daughter, Katherine C. [Mrs. Harold R.] Bruce, Hanover, New Hampshire; given to present collection, 1968.
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