Aryballos

56.19.47

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Ring-shaped aryballos (oil flask) with a round body with hole in centre like a doughnut, a short neck with flat rim and a very small handle from the base of the neck to the top of the rim. The aryballos has yellowish type ground decoration all over the body with dark brown circular lines along the two sides of the body. The dark brown decorated has significantly faded. The exterior part of the body from underneath the handle to underneath the flat disc top has a band of animals, possibly birds in dark brown and some red for details as well details of the animal's wings scrathed on the surface. The disk shaped top also had decoration of simple parallel brown lines which have faded.