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ARYBALLE Globular body decorated with a hoplite...

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ARYBALLE Globular body decorated with a hoplite riding on the left, helmeted and holding a round shield. The field is decorated with irregular cruciform rosettes, incised with crosses and highlighted in red. Details of the horse and figure are incised and highlighted in red. Beige clay, painted in black with red highlights. Greek art, Late Corinthian, 570-550 B.C. Height. 6.5 cm. Cracked neck. BIBLIOGRAPHY. H. Payne. Necrocrinthia - A study of Corinthian art in the archaic period, Oxford, 1931, pl. 36, fig 2. PROVENANCE. Galerie Gilgamesh, Paris, July 17, 2001, certificate AG07/01/0001.