Ancient Greek ceramic alabastron decorated with multiple horizontal orientalizing zoophorus friezes 插畫檔

This historical monochrome engraving illustrates a traditional narrow-necked ointment vessel known as an alabastron, featuring a tapered body divided into four distinct horizontal registers or zoophorus bands. The tiered decorative scheme showcases pairs of facing lions, winged sphinxes, sirens, and quadrupeds like a bull, all densely surrounded by characteristic incised rosette filler motifs. This iconic style of multi-banded pottery represents the Corinthian and Proto-Corinthian ceramic traditions originally produced between the 7th and 6th centuries BCE, capturing the monumental animal style and trade-influenced eastern iconographies perfected across ancient Greece.