Alabastron

MS554

From: Italy | Etruria | Vulci

Curatorial Section: Mediterranean

Object Number MS554
Current Location Collections Storage
Culture Etruscan | Greek
Provenience Italy | Etruria | Vulci
Manufacture Location Corinth
Creator Altenburg Painter
Locus Tomb 5
Period Early Corinthian
Date Made 595-590 BCE
Section Mediterranean
Materials Ceramic
Iconography Dancers
Description

Alabastron. Essentially flat resting surface (but with central depression) allowing vessel to stand. Wide heavy ovoid body tapering to narrow neck and wide overhanging disk. Handle emerges from neck and is continuous with disk. Round hole cut through handle at center. Three main friezes. Seven dancers in top frieze, eight in middle, nine in bottom frieze.

Height 22.7 cm
Outside Diameter 15 cm
Credit Line Purchased from Francesco Mancinelli-Scotti, 1896
Other Number 8 - Stevenson Etruscan Series Number

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