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Museum August Kestner Ancient Cultures Vessel ceramics and vase painting [689]
'football'-Aryballos (Salbgefäß) (Museum August Kestner CC BY-NC-SA)
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'football' aryballos (anointing vessel)

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Description

Vessels that contained oil, perfumes or ointments could have different shapes. The classical forms, which only allowed the dropwise pouring of their valuable contents due to a narrow mouth opening, included, for example, spherical aryballoi with a wide flat mouth plate.
The aryballos belongs to the so-called palaestra set. In addition to the ointment vessel containing the body oil, this set consisted of a scraping iron (strigilis) for cleaning the skin and a sponge for wet cleaning. The required items were usually worn by the athlete on a leather strap on his wrist. - This specimen is also called a 'football' aryballos because of its decoration. This type is derived from aryballoi, which were originally made of leather. (AVS)

Former August Kestner Collection, Rome

Material/Technique

Clay / Black-polychrome

Measurements

Height: 5.7 cm, diameter: 5,4 cm

Literature

  • Dierichs, Angelika - Siebert, Anne Viola (2006): Duftnoten. Was Griechen und Römern in die Nase stieg. Hannover, 43 Nr. 34
  • Mlasowsky, Alexander (2000): Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum, Deutschland. Hannover, Kestner-Museum 2. München, Taf. 9,1-2
  • Payne, Humfry (1931): Necrocorinthia. A study of corinthian art in the archaic period. Oxford, 291 Nr. 638
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