The smallest was the Chalkodamas aryballos, a spherical Spartan utensil less than two inches high. From Wordnik.com. [How Do You Define One?] Reference
The University of Pennsylvania Museum features everything from a nineteenth-century bronze cast of the satyr Silenos (left), to a helmet from the eighth-century B.C. (center), to an aryballos (right) from eastern Greece, ca. 600-570 B.C. From Wordnik.com. [Museums: Classics in the City of Brotherly Love] Reference
The basic equipment of an athlete consisted only of an unguent jar (aryballos) of oil and a scraping instrument (strigil) for anointing and cleaning himself, though for various events a competitor might need boxing thongs, jumping weights, discus, or javelin. From Wordnik.com. [The Ancient Olympics (1996)] Reference
The collection includes one particularly special piece: a beautifully decorated Greek aryballos: an open salt container with rounded openings stemming from the 6th century BC. From Wordnik.com. [The Earth Times Online Newspaper] Reference
Thus in the laboratories we find bas-reliefs of flasks and vases, and figures carrying perfume-bottles of the familiar aryballos form; in the tribute-chambers, offerings of lotus-lilies, wheat sheaves, maize, grapes, and pomegranates; in the oratories of Isis, Amen, and Sekhet, representations of these divinities enthroned, and receiving the homage of the King; while in the treasury, both King and Queen appear laden with precious gifts of caskets, necklaces, pectoral ornaments, sistrums, and the like. From Wordnik.com. [A Thousand Miles Up the Nile] Reference
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