Olpe
Object Number:
MS714
Current Location:
Etruscan Italy Gallery
Culture:
Etruscan
Provenience:
Italy
Etruria
Vulci
Locus:
Tomb B
Date Made:
600 BC
Section:
Mediterranean
Materials:
Ceramic
Technique:
Etrusco-Corinthian
Iconography:
Warrior
Description:
Broken and mended; a few small gaps restored in plaster. especially at the back of the mouth. Low ring foot and vertical band handle; a fine raised ring between shoulder and neck. Above the foot a zone of petals. The lower body glazed, with four lines of added purple over the glaze. In the main zone around the level of greatest diameter a procession of warrioris right to left; each wears a helmet and carries a round shield. All are incised around the outline; overpainting alternately in purple and white. On the shoulder purple tongues, outlined by incision. The neck glazed but undecorated. Buff clay; thin streaky brownish glaze. Yellow clay, decoration of red and brown bands central zone of warriors with helmets, shields allternating red and buff.
Other Number:
| 124 | - | 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: 143-144, C2
[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: 19
[Catalogue] Szilagyi, J.G., trans. E.S. Graziani. 1992. "Ceramica Etrusco-Corinzia Figurata",.
[Book] DePuma, Richard D. 1986. Etruscan Tomb-Groups: Ancient Pottery and Bronzes in Chicago's Field Museum of Natural History. : Page/Fig./Plate: 29
[Book] Moser, Mary E. 1984. Etruscan Pottery:The Meeting of Greece and Etruria. : Page/Fig./Plate: 58-59
[Book] Stary, P. F. Zur eisenzeitlichen Bewaffnung und Kampfeweise in Mittelitalien. Marburger Studien zur Vor- und Fruhgeschichte Vol.: 3.
[Book] Szilagyi, J. G. 1967. 14. 212.
[Journal] Szilagyi, J. G. Etrusko-korinthische polychrome Vasen Vol.: 16.
[Journal] Radan, G. Italic Helmets Vol.: 6. : Page/Fig./Plate: 33
[Book] Brown, W. L. 1960. The Etruscan Lion.
[Journal] Hanfmann, G. M. A Polychrome Vase Vol.: 9. : Page/Fig./Plate: 57
[Article] Dohan, Edith H. 1934. "Unpublished Vases in the University Museum of Philadelphia". AJA. 38 (4) : Page/Fig./Plate: 527
[Catalogue] Luce, Stephen B. 1921. Catalogue of the Mediterranean Section. : Page/Fig./Plate: 57
[Article] Furtwangler, Adolf. 1904. Neue Denkmäler antiker Kunst: Antiken in den Museen von Amerika III (SB. Munch 1905). : Page/Fig./Plate: 256
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