Situla
Object Number:
MS1255
Current Location:
Collections storage
Culture:
Faliscan
Etruscan
Provenience:
Italy
Etruria
Narce
Locus:
Tomb 2F
Date Made:
700 BCE to 600 BCE
Early Date:
-700
Late Date:
-600
Section:
Mediterranean
Materials:
Ceramic
Iconography:
Man
Antelope
Description:
Red on white painted decoration, includes unusual upside down men and antelope. Pottery; broken and pieces missing; fabric like MS1256; handmade but rim finished on wheel; handle clumsey, decorated with transverse stripes; on upper surface of rim splashes of white slip, on lower zigzag; ornament irregularly applied and executed-upper and lower zones zigzag with chevrons, middle zone: rectangles containing diagonals, chevrons, between rectangles filling ornament, men, animals and some unintelligible (may have been done when vase was upside down). Base: irregular lunettes.
Height:
18.6cm
Outside Diamater:
17.2cm
Other Number:
| 563 | - | Stevenson Etruscan Series Number |
Bibliography:
[Book] Dohan, Edith H. 1942. Italic Tomb-Groups in the University Museum. : Page/Fig./Plate: 64
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