Alabastron

Museum number:

8-3301

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Accession number:

Acc.147

Object count:

1

Description:

Boeotian black-figure alabastron; put together from large fragments, mouth alien (Corinthian) but ancient; clay warm brown, of mouth white; A, male siren to left; B, lotus; sparse filling ornament; main frieze framed by rosette frieze and dicing; on neck tongues; underneath rosette with central hollow.

Donor:

Alfred Emerson and M. Boissé

Collection place:

Boeotia, Central Greece

Culture or time period:

Greek Archaic Period (700–480 BC)

Collector:

Alfred Emerson

Object type:

archaeology

Object class:

Alabastra

Accession date:

1904

Department:

Classical Mediterranean

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