Aryballos with Goat

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Title

Aryballos with Goat

Subject

TERRACOTTA

Description

An aryballos with a squat globular body, a rounded base that is very slightly flattened with an indented dot in the centre, a short cylindrical neck that flares slightly at the bottom, a wide disc mouth with a deep hanging rim and a short vertical strap handle that passes from the rim edge down to insert on the shoulder. The handle is slightly concave in profile. The fine, hard, creamy-pink clay is decorated with worn pinkish-brown concentric circles on mouth and base. On the body there is a large grazing goat surrounded by rosettes, both with incised detail. The style is similar to that of the Herzogovina Painter, a middle to late Corinthian vase painter with many round aryballoi with this deocration (a grazing goat facing left) among his attributions. The mouth has been repaired with some infilling with plaster that has been coloured pink. Otherwise, except for the wear of the decoration, the vessel is in good condition.

A) All the decoration is painted in dark brown that has flaked or worn away leaving faded pinkish-brown remains as follows:
B) The top of the mouth has a series of five thick concentric circles, commencing around the small central round opening and finishing just inside the outer edge. The interior of the mouth and neck is also painted. The outside surface of the rim has a painted band around hte top, then a reserved band followed by a painted band and finally, reserved band around the bottom. The painted bands continue across the top of the handle.
C) A band of dots or blobs decorates the shoulder. Below, on the body and extending up onto the shoulder, is a large grazing goat depicted in profile, facing left with incised details. His nose touches the ground line; he has a large round eye with a double outsline, a small oval ear and a very long curved horn. His limbs are spread apart with his right foreleg to the front and his left hind leg stepping forward. A number of ribs are incised along his body and his haunches are outlined with incision. He has a short tail, curving upwares, and his scrotum is depicted between his hindquarters. Between his legs, underneath his body, is a large painted and incised rosette with a round centre (with an incised outline and a small incised circle in its middle) and petals, plus one smaller, simple rosette. Other rosettes without the round centre are dotted about the field along with dots and blobs.
When viewed from underneath, there is a central small depression on the base with a pair of concentric circles around it, then a wide reserved circle, a wide painted circle and another wide reserved circle. Next come four thick painted concentric circles, which form a group. The inner two run around the edge of the base and the other two extend onto the lower body (with the outermost one forming a ground line for the grazing goat).

Creator

Aegean
Greek
Corinthian

Source

Purchased from the Toussaint Collection with funds from the Castlehow Bequest, 1995.

Date

600 - 550 BC

Identifier

95.025

Coverage

Greece
Corinth

Files

Aryballos.jpg

Citation

Aegean, Greek, and Corinthian, “Aryballos with Goat,” RD Milns Antiquities Museum Online Exhibitions, accessed March 29, 2024, https://uqantiquitiesonlineexhibitions.omeka.net/items/show/163.