Aryballos (oil bottle) (Primary Title)
Unknown (Artist)
The Proto-Corinthian style of this vase shows both the fine lines of Late Geometric pottery alongside a broad band containing a figural frieze of running dogs. In the 8th century BC, Corinthian potters created this form of vase, called an aryballos (a small round or ovoid vessel with a narrow neck), to hold scented oils. Scents imported from Western Asia were mixed with oil in Corinth and then exported in aryballoi, which have been found throughout Greece and the western Mediterranean.
Arthur and Margaret Glasgow Fund
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