Aryballos, Showing a Swan and a Lion

An image of vessel
aryballos
cosmetic vessel aryballos, lion, swan

Production Notes
Etrusco-Corinthian

Field Collection
Cerveteri Etruria Italy

Dimensions
height 0.08 m
diameter 0.065 m

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vessel aryballos cosmetic vessel aryballos, lion, swan Production Notes Etrusco-Corinthian Field Collection Cerveteri Etruria Italy Dimensions height 0.08 m diameter 0.065 m

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Accession Number: GR.60.1896
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Aperture: f/45.0
Focal length: 120
Camera: Hasselblad H3DII-31
Photographer name: norman, andrew; andrew
Image height: 570 pixels
Image width: 760 pixels
Processed with: Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 3.5 (Windows)
Filesize: 46.86kB
Exposure time: 1/60
ISO Speed: 200
Fnumber: 45/1
Captured: 2011:11:03 14:20:18

Key words

6th Century Archaic Artistic Movement BC Date Department Etruscan Fitz_ANT Italian Material Nationalities Object Type Other Keywords Workflow _WF_AdOK _WF_OPAC animals aryballos birds clay cosmetics lions oil painted swans vessel

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