Amphora Lid
Object Number:
MS2490B
Current Location:
Etruscan Italy Gallery
Culture:
Italo-Ionian
Etruscan
Provenience:
Italy
Etruria
Orvieto
Date Made:
6th century BC
Early Date:
-699
Late Date:
-500
Section:
Mediterranean
Materials:
Ceramic
Technique:
Black Figure Ware
Description:
Lid of Etruscan Black-figure Amphora. Top slightly concave. Central mushroom knob drawn up to a point in the middle. Top is covered with red glaze for a band in yellow-white paint, wheel-run. Underside has a wheel-made ridge around center .086 in diameter. The underside is unglazed.
Other Number:
| 953 | - | Stevenson Etruscan Series 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: 207-209
[Book] 1991. Gens antiquissima Italiae: Antichità dall'Umbria a New York. : Page/Fig./Plate: 426
[Catalogue] Luce, Stephen B. 1921. Catalogue of the Mediterranean Section. : Page/Fig./Plate: p. 84-5, No. 57
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