M0018098: Round aryballos, late Corinthian, showing 6 padded dancers and a siren

Previous title, replaced October 2020: Round aryballos, late Corinthian, showing 6 padded dancer and siren

Photograph of a late Corinthian aryballos, c. 600 B.C., decorated with six dancers and a siren. It was acquired by the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum at an unknown point and accessioned in 1940 (accession number R263/1940). It is not held by Wellcome Collection. Related images: M0018096-M0018101

May-June 1960

1 photograph glass plate negative; 10.2 x 12.7 cm

Wellcome Collection holds the accession register which provides an entry for the item: acc. number R263/1940

Copyright is held by Wellcome Collection

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.

Please consult the digitised version as this item is fragile. Email library@wellcomecollection.org to request access to the physical item.