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MS714
Location: On Display in the Etruscan Italy Gallery
From: Italy | Etruria | Vulci
Curatorial Section: Mediterranean
| Object Number | MS714 |
| Current Location | Etruscan Italy Gallery - On Display |
| Culture | Etruscan |
| Provenience | Italy | Etruria | Vulci |
| Locus | Tomb B |
| Date Made | 600 BCE |
| Section | Mediterranean |
| Materials | Ceramic |
| Technique | Etrusco-Corinthian |
| Iconography | Warrior |
| Iconography Subject | War |
| Description | Broken and mended; a few small gaps restored in plaster. especially at the back of the mouth. Low ring foot and vertical band handle; a fine raised ring between shoulder and neck. Above the foot a zone of petals. The lower body glazed, with four lines of added purple over the glaze. In the main zone around the level of greatest diameter a procession of warriors right to left; each wears a helmet and carries a round shield. All are incised around the outline; overpainting alternately in purple and white. On the shoulder purple tongues, outlined by incision. The neck glazed but undecorated. Buff clay; thin streaky brownish glaze. Yellow clay, decoration of red and brown bands central zone of warriors with helmets, shields allternating red and buff. |
| Height | 25.1 cm |
| Width | 16.5 cm |
| Outside Diameter | 14.5 cm |
| Credit Line | Purchased from Francesco Mancinelli-Scotti, 1896 |
| Other Number | 124 - Stevenson Etruscan Series Number |
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