Situla
MS1255
From: Italy | Etruria | Narce
Curatorial Section: Mediterranean
Object Number | MS1255 |
Current Location | Collections Storage |
Culture | Faliscan | Etruscan |
Provenience | Italy | Etruria | Narce |
Locus | Tomb 2F |
Date Made | 700 BCE to 600 BCE |
Section | Mediterranean |
Materials | Ceramic |
Iconography | Man | Antelope |
Description | Red on white painted decoration, includes unusual upside down men and antelope. Pottery; broken and pieces missing; fabric like MS1256; handmade but rim finished on wheel; handle clumsy, decorated with transverse stripes; on upper surface of rim splashes of white slip, on lower zigzag; ornament irregularly applied and executed-upper and lower zones zigzag with chevrons, middle zone: rectangles containing diagonals, chevrons, between rectangles filling ornament, men, animals and some unintelligible (may have been done when vase was upside down). Base: irregular lunettes. |
Height | 18.6 cm |
Outside Diameter | 17.2 cm |
Credit Line | Purchased from Giuseppe Ficola, 1896 |
Other Number | 563 - Stevenson Etruscan Series Number |
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