1925.30.6: Small Globular Aryballos: Winged Sphinx
Vessels
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- 1925.30.6
- Title
- Small Globular Aryballos: Winged Sphinx
- Classification
- Vessels
- Work Type
- vessel
- Date
- c. 575 BCE
- Places
- Creation Place: Ancient & Byzantine World, Europe, Corinthia
- Period
- Archaic period
- Culture
- Greek
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/292210
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Terracotta; pale yellow clay with slip
- Technique
- Wheel-made
- Dimensions
- 6.6 cm (2 5/8 in.)
Provenance
- Recorded Ownership History
-
Joseph Clark Hoppin, Purchased in Athens, 1898, Bequest to Fogg Art Museum, 1925.
Acquisition and Rights
- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Bequest of Joseph C. Hoppin
- Accession Year
- 1925
- Object Number
- 1925.30.6
- Division
- Asian and Mediterranean Art
- Contact
- am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
- Permissions
-
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Descriptions
- Description
- Intact. Decoration badly worn. Rosette on top of rim, shoulder, and base, dots on edge of rim and stripes on handle. On body, winged sphinx to right wearing a polos and behind her a goose.
Publication History
- Joseph Clark Hoppin and Albert Gallatin, Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum, U.S.A.: volume 1, Hoppin and Gallatin Collections, Libraire Ancienne Edouard Champion (Paris, 1926)
Verification Level
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