Tablet

Object Number:	MS2403
Current Location:	Collections Storage
Culture:	Italic Etruscan
Provenience:	Italy Etruria Chiusi
Date Made:	600 BCE to 500 BCE
Early Date:	-600
Late Date:	-500
Section:	Mediterranean
Materials:	Ceramic
Technique:	Bucchero
Length:	15.5 cm
Width:	8.6 cm
Credit Line:	Purchased from Davis & Harvey (Coleman Estate Sale); Subscription of Phebe A. Hearst, 1897

Description

Bucchero model plate/Meat tray; part of a focolare set of miniature tableware used in the tomb. Near each end of both long sides is a small cut-out scallop. An incised line runs around the better finished surface (presumably the top) about 0.004m from the edge. Black bucchero. Intact save for a missing corner.

Bibliography:

[Catalogue, Auction] 1897. The Robert H. Coleman Collection of Archaeological Objects. Catalogue.. Philadelphia. Davis and Harvey's Gallery. Actual Citation : Page/Fig./Plate: p. 34, no. 148	View Objects related to this Actual Citation
[Article] 1935. Campana Suppelex.. Vol. 5. no. 4-5. Type Citation : Page/Fig./Plate: p. 102, type 55, pl. 5, 55	View Objects related to this Type Citation