Aryballos, 6th century BCE

  • Greek

Clay

  • Overall: 2 3/4 × 2 3/4 inches (7 × 7 cm) Overall (diam of mouth): 1 7/8 inches (4.8 cm)

City of Detroit Purchase

24.162

Department

Greco-Roman and Ancient European

collection of the Dukes of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha (Gotha, Germany)

collection Herzog Albert Ernest Alfred [Duke of Edinburgh and Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha] (Gotha, Germany)

collection placed on deposit (Schloss Friedenstein), no. H. A. 39

(Herzogliches Museum, Gotha, Germany)

1924-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

Valentiner, W. H. "Greek Vases," Bulletin of the DIA 6, no. 2 (1924): pp. 10-13, (repr.). Madigan, B. "Corinthian and Attic Vases in the Detroit Institute of Arts." In Monumenta Graeca et Romana, vol. 12. Leiden/Boston, 2008, p. 8, cat. 11, (fig. 14).

Greek, Aryballos, 6th century BCE, clay. Detroit Institute of Arts, City of Detroit Purchase, 24.162.