Skyphos

Kotyle

Object Number:

MS2751

Current Location:

Etruscan Italy Gallery

Culture:

Faliscan
Etruscan

Provenience:

Italy
Etruria
Narce

Locus:

Tomb 1

Date Made:

7th century BC

Early Date:

-700

Late Date:

-600

Section:

Mediterranean

Materials:

Ceramic

Technique:

Impasto

Iconography:

Bird

Description:

Pottery; intact; fabric like MS2736-39; pale chocolate at core, darker on surface; wheel-made; rim slightly inset; handles flat and angular. Under each handle three conventic foliates incised so deeply as to leave outlines embossed on interior. Main decoration: incised bird, similar to bird on MS2739 except body filled with dots instead of lines. Below rim line of dots in rectangular frame. Dots neatly cut and with the lines of decoration were once filled with red pigment.

Height:

8.57cm

Width:

14cm

Current & Past Exhibitions:

Classical Gallery: Etruscan (1975 - 2000)

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: 11, 93-94

[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: 13

[Book] Dohan, Edith H. 1942. Italic Tomb-Groups in the University Museum. : Page/Fig./Plate: 56