Plate
68-36-1
From: Italy | Etruria | Vulci
Curatorial Section: Mediterranean
| Object Number | 68-36-1 |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Culture | Etruscan |
| Provenience | Italy | Etruria | Vulci |
| Locus | Osteria |
| Date Made | 600-500 BCE |
| Section | Mediterranean |
| Materials | Ceramic |
| Technique | Etrusco-Corinthian |
| Description | Mended, chips missing. 8 ancient holes for repair. Low ring base. Walls slope up gently to flaring rim, rounded and thckened on top. Rolled clay rope applied under exterior flare; pulled out to loop handles on one diameter, stopped to allow lifting edge on other diameter. Painted dec.: red/brown and purple. On exterior, bands. On interior, bands on outer edge and center, with frieze of animals between. Frieze: 2 panthers, lion, sphinx, horse (or dog?); details of faces incised. Incised rosettes and blobs in ground. Medium fabric, fine clay. Polished. Fired light brownish-buff. |
| Height | 5.1 cm |
| Outside Diameter | 17.5 cm |
| Credit Line | Purchased from Hercle Excavation Company; funded in Memory of Hugh Kirkwood Duffield, 1968 |
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