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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