Urn

MS870B

From: Italy | Etruria | Narce

Curatorial Section: Mediterranean

Object Number MS870B
Current Location Collections Storage
Culture Faliscan | Etruscan
Provenience Italy | Etruria | Narce
Locus Tomb 70M
Section Mediterranean
Materials Ceramic
Description

Pottery. One pick hole. Fabric of medium fine texture, grey at core, outer surface buff to red. Handmade. Poor polish. Faint traces of a central zone of white lozenge pattern. With the bones in the urn are masses of a black substance which proved on analysis to be clay. Apparently the body was burned on a bed of clay and when the bones were gathered up, some of the clay soil was taken with them.

Height 21.2 cm
Outside Diameter 33.2 cm
Credit Line Purchased from Francesco Mancinelli-Scotti, 1896
Other Number 162 - Stevenson Etruscan Series Number

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