Amphora

MS2511

Location: On Display in the Etruscan Italy Gallery

From: Italy | Etruria | Orvieto

Curatorial Section: Mediterranean

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Object Number MS2511
Current Location Etruscan Italy Gallery - On Display
Culture Etruscan
Provenience Italy | Etruria | Orvieto
Creator Group of Villa Giulia 2303
Date Made 399-300BC
Section Mediterranean
Materials Ceramic
Iconography Keto | Ivy
Description

Silvered Amphora. Ivy pattern, incised and filled with white on neck. Foot and large sections of wall missing and restored in plaster.

Beazley, EVP, p. 310: p. 281-2, Group of Villa Giuli 2303: "...I did not leave myself much time to examine another vase in Philadelphia, I think a sort of neck amphora, which may also belong to the group: light-colored, grayish clay, covered with a white slip and over that with a yellow; ketos handles as before, with red and light-blue details."

Height 40 cm
Outside Diameter 22 cm
Credit Line Purchased from Riccardo Mancini; Subscription of John Wanamaker, 1896
Other Number 950 - Stevenson Etruscan Series Number

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