Alabastron
MS710
From: Italy | Etruria | Vulci
Curatorial Section: Mediterranean
| Object Number | MS710 |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Culture | Etruscan |
| Provenience | Italy | Etruria | Vulci |
| Locus | Tomb B |
| Date Made | 799-600 BCE |
| Section | Mediterranean |
| Materials | Ceramic |
| Technique | Etrusco-Corinthian |
| Iconography | Panther | Bird | Swan | Cock |
| Description | Intact. Tall alabastron with rounded bottom. Two friezes, bordered by tripleglaze bands. In lower frieze, panther, bird and swans. In upper, two birds. Filling ornament of incised rosettes. Below neck, tongue pattern. On upper face of rim, bands. Careless drawing. Traces of incision and of added purple. Buff clay, brownish black glaze, much peeled. |
| Height | 24.4 cm |
| Outside Diameter | 10.6 cm |
| Credit Line | Purchased from Francesco Mancinelli-Scotti, 1896 |
| Other Number | 119 - Stevenson Etruscan Series Number |
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