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MS1255

From: Italy | Etruria | Narce

Curatorial Section: Mediterranean

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Object Number MS1255
Current Location Collections Storage
Culture Faliscan | Etruscan
Provenience Italy | Etruria | Narce
Locus Tomb 2F
Date Made 700 BCE to 600 BCE
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 clumsy, 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 18.6 cm
Outside Diameter 17.2 cm
Credit Line Purchased from Giuseppe Ficola, 1896
Other Number 563 - Stevenson Etruscan Series Number

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