Lid

68-36-24

From: Italy | Etruria | Vulci

Curatorial Section: Mediterranean

Object Number 68-36-24
Current Location Collections Storage
Culture Etruscan
Provenience Italy | Etruria | Vulci
Locus Osteria
Section Mediterranean
Materials Ceramic
Technique Bucchero
Description

Round lid. Wheelmade. A few chips, plastered at rim (resting surface). Slightly sharpened rim, plain short walls. Top slightly convex. Central round applied handle;flat disc base with hollow flaring extension. Fine clay, fairly fine fabric. Fairly good bucchero, streaked by hand burnishing. Fired brown to black at surface, dark gray at core.

Height 4.4 cm
Outside Diameter 9.7 cm
Credit Line Purchased from Hercle Excavation Company; funded in Memory of Hugh Kirkwood Duffield, 1968

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