Chalice

Holkion

Object Number:

MS560A

Current Location:

Etruscan Italy Gallery

Culture:

Etruscan

Provenience:

Italy
Etruria
Vulci
Chiusi

Locus:

Tomb 5

Date Made:

699-600 BC

Early Date:

-699

Late Date:

-600

Section:

Mediterranean

Materials:

Ceramic

Technique:

Bucchero

Iconography:

Caryatid

Description:

Bucchero Chalice with Caryatids. Black bucchero ware, high base and five female figures as supports at end of base of bowl, incised lines.

Height:

15.3cm

Outside Diamater:

14.5cm

Other Number:

743

Other Number

Current & Past Exhibitions:

Etruscan World (15 Mar 2003)

Bibliography:

[Catalogue] Turfa, Jean M. 2005. Catalogue of the Etruscan Gallery of the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology. : Page/Fig./Plate: p. 39, fig. 24; p. 196, no. 198

[Catalogue] White, Donald and Ann Blair Brownlee, Irene Bald Romano, Jean MacIntosh Turfa. 2002. Guide to the Etruscan and Roman Worlds at the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology. : Page/Fig./Plate: p. 24, no. 37

[Thesis] Brady, Barry J. 1977. Etruscan Bucchero Chalices in the University Museum. : Page/Fig./Plate: 51-52/No. 25

[Book] Dohan, Edith H. 1942. Italic Tomb-Groups in the University Museum. : Page/Fig./Plate: 99

[Article] Dohan, Edith H. 1933. "The Gallery of Italic and Etruscan Art". The University Museum Bulletin. 4 (6): 149-177.