M0016687: Two aryballos, one showing figures and other floral designs, 7th and 6th century B.C.

Date:
1958
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WT/D/1/20/1/150/24
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M0016687: Two aryballos, one showing figures and other floral designs, 7th and 6th century B.C. Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0). Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Also known as

Previous title, replaced March 2022: Aryballos, Corinthian decorated with floral designs in red and black
Previous title, replaced March 2022: Aryballos, Corinthian, showing 6 dancers and a winged figure in red black

Description

Photograph of two Corinthian aryballos, one with floral designs, c.6th century B.C. and one showing six dances and a flying bird, c.7th century B.C. The first was purchased at auction in 1928 by the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum and accessioned in 1936 (accessioned number R446/1936). The second was acquired by the Museum at an unknown point and accessioned in 1946 (accession number R263/1946). Neither are held by Wellcome Collection.

Publication/Creation

1958

Physical description

1 photograph glass plate negative; 8.3 x 10.8 cm

Related material

Wellcome Collection holds the accession registers which provide entries for the items: accession number R446/1936 and accession number R263/1946

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Notes

Catalogue data comes from a combination of entries in the original glass plate registers, metadata created when the glass plates were digitised in the early 2000s and enhancements made by the cataloguer in 2022.

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