Kantharos
Sherd
MS1628
Location: On Display in the Etruscan Italy Gallery
From: Italy | Etruria
Curatorial Section: Mediterranean
| Object Number | MS1628 |
| Current Location | Etruscan Italy Gallery - On Display |
| Culture | Etruscan |
| Provenience | Italy | Etruria |
| Date Made | 499-400 BCE |
| Section | Mediterranean |
| Materials | Ceramic | Terracotta |
| Technique | Bucchero |
| Iconography | Sphinx | Grafitto |
| Description | Sherd, cut from wall of kantharos on which inscription ran from lip down to floor on interior. Cut neatly with sharp insturment and filled with white. Frame is also graffito A second, of three letters, on exterior behind head of sphinx. |
| Length | 7 cm |
| Width | 2.75 cm |
| Credit Line | Museum Purchase; Subscription of John Wanamaker, 1896 |
| Other Number | 1205 - Stevenson Etruscan Series Number |
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