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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
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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)

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