Oinochoe
Jug
Object Number:
MS2517
Current Location:
Etruscan Italy Gallery
Culture:
Etruscan
Provenience:
Italy
South Italy
Section:
Mediterranean
Materials:
Ceramic
Technique:
Red Figure
Iconography:
Eros
Women
Tympanum
Altar?
Description:
Etruscan Red-figured Jug. Oinochoe Shape VII. Intact. In area below handle a large vertical palmette and two large rosettes. On either side foliage resembling a question mark and a trumpet. On front, "Eros (or Lasa) and a woman with a tympanon, both running and looking around." Between them an altar (?). "On the neck, a woman seated with a tympanon.' Border of large egg pattern on shoulder at base of neck.
Height:
35.5cm
Outside Diamater:
17.5cm
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: 59, 283
[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: 37
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