Vase Carrier
MS1253
From: Italy | Etruria | Narce
Curatorial Section: Mediterranean
Object Number | MS1253 |
Current Location | Collections Storage |
Culture | Faliscan | Etruscan |
Provenience | Italy | Etruria | Narce |
Locus | Tomb 2F |
Section | Mediterranean |
Materials | Ceramic |
Description | Pottery; restored, ornament partly effaced. Fabric medium fine texture; core dark grey, surface reddish brown where unpolished, deep copper red with pinkish tinge elsewhere. Probably wheelmade. Upper surface of rim grooved; base bell-shaped and perforated with arrow-like opening alternating up and down. On neck band, stripes, frieze of brids; bulb, narrow bands, wavy line, row of men holding hands and their garments ornamented with dots, heads to right; base two friezes-lower horsemen to right upper: seems to have been horses and geometric motifs. |
Height | 53.7 cm |
Outside Diameter | 33.2 cm |
Credit Line | Purchased from Giuseppe Ficola, 1896 |
Other Number | 561 - Stevenson Etruscan Series Number |
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