Zoomorphic Vase

Aryballos

Object Number:

MS558

Current Location:

Etruscan Italy Gallery

Culture:

Etruscan

Provenience:

Italy
Etruria
Vulci

Locus:

Tomb 5

Section:

Mediterranean

Materials:

Ceramic

Technique:

Handmade
Etrusco-Corinthian

Iconography:

Doe

Description:

Plastic vase: doe. Two hooves, a chip from the neck, and the stopper in the form of the head, missing. Handmade. Seated doe with legs folded beneath her. The hooves, the fetlocks, the knees, the corresponding joins on the hind legs, the tail, and the band about the neck are painted matt brown. The rest of the vase, except the belly, covereed with fine brown dots. Clean pale buff clay.

Height:

7.4cm

Length:

14.5cm

Other Number:

102

Stevenson Etruscan Series Number

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: 168-169