Urn
MS1124
From: Italy | Etruria | Narce
Curatorial Section: Mediterranean
| Object Number | MS1124 |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Culture | Faliscan | Etruscan |
| Provenience | Italy | Etruria | Narce |
| Locus | Tomb 16F? |
| Date Made | 2nd-1st c. BCE |
| Section | Mediterranean |
| Materials | Ceramic |
| Iconography | Textile | Inscription | Graffito |
| Inscription Language | Etruscan Language |
| Description | Ovoid urn inscribed with Etruscan name of Petrui (wife of Telmus see MS3428). Coarse, gritty, red ware with thin walls. left wheel-finished. Base flat, body ovoid but opening directly into wide mouth with short flaring rim and downward everted lip, bevelled on outer toip. Inscr. scratched after firing on "shoulder," retrograde. Impression of textile. |
| Height | 32 cm |
| Outside Diameter | 24 cm |
| Credit Line | Purchased from Francesco Mancinelli-Scotti, 1896 |
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