Skyphos
Bowl

Object Number: | MS640 |
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Current Location: |
Etruscan Italy Gallery Currently On Display |
Culture: | Etruscan |
Provenience: | Italy Etruria Vulci |
Locus: | Tomb 26 |
Date Made: | 6th century BC |
Early Date: | -699 |
Late Date: | -500 |
Section: | Mediterranean |
Materials: | Ceramic |
Technique: | Etrusco-Corinthian |
Length: | 7.94 cm |
Width: | 19.05 cm |
Credit Line: | Purchased from Francesco Mancinelli-Scotti, 1896 |
Other Number: | 92 - Stevenson Etruscan Series Number |
Description
Etrusco-Corinthian Bowl. Wine cup, yellow clay, two handles, decorations of red and black, zone of ducks swimming. Light cream clay, fine texture. Underside of foot flat, circular rim and sloping sides. Short foot. Body depressed sphere. No neck. Lip short and flaring with rounded edge. Rim narrow with broad mouth. Two round loop handles at mid-shoulder. Design painted dark brown with purplish red and white paint added. Foor and lower half solidly dark brown. Shoulder (handle zone) obverse and reverse of a frieze of two water birds in design paint. Upper wing of each bird purplish red, feathers alternatively red and brown, brown feathers embellished with white dot centers. Brown shapeless blob fill ornaments on frieze. Brown on small area either side of handles. On outer face of rim patterned design. Row of brown rectangles set at intervals between fine brown horizontal lines. Above and below are bands of brown dots on reserved ground. Upper and lower margins provided by fine horizontal brown lines. On inner face of rim bands of purplish red and white paint. Handles brown. Interior dark brown. Incisions outline wings and feathers of birds and outline and mark features of blob filling ornaments of frieze. Piece is intact.
Current & Past Exhibitions:
Classical World - Etruscan World (15 Mar 2003) | View Objects in Exhibition |
Bibliography:
[Chapter] Jolivet, Vincent, and Ambrosini, Laura, and Turfa, Jean M. 2014. "De Vulci a Chypre et au-dela: voyages du cycle etrusco-corinthien de Codros". Les potiers d'Étrurie et leur monde. Contacts, Échanges, Transferts. Hommages à Mario A. Del Chiaro. Paris. Armand Colin Éditeur. pg. 209-221 Actual Citation : Page/Fig./Plate: p. 210; p. 219, fig. 2 | View Objects related to this Actual Citation |
[Catalogue, Exhibition] Turfa, Jean M. 2005. Catalogue of the Etruscan Gallery of the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology.. Philadelphia. University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology. Actual Citation : Page/Fig./Plate: pp. 205-206, no. 210 | View Objects related to this Actual Citation |
[Book] Moser, Mary E. 1984. Etruscan Pottery:The Meeting of Greece and Etruria.. Carlisle. The Trout Gallery, Emil R. Weiss Center for the Arts, Dickinson College. Actual Citation : Page/Fig./Plate: pp. 50-51, fig. 31 | View Objects related to this Actual Citation |
[Book] Dohan, Edith H. 1942. Italic Tomb-Groups in the University Museum.. Philadelphia. University of Pennsylvania Press. Actual Citation : Page/Fig./Plate: p. 103, no. 9, pl. LI | View Objects related to this Actual Citation |
[Catalogue, Collection] Luce, Stephen B. 1921. Catalogue of the Mediterranean Section.. Philadelphia. The University Museum. : Page/Fig./Plate: p. 54, no. 24 | View Objects related to this |
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