Thymiaterion
Incense Burner
MS1597
From: Italy | South Italy
Curatorial Section: Mediterranean
| Object Number | MS1597 |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Culture | South Italian |
| Provenience | Italy | South Italy |
| Manufacture Location | Canosa |
| Date Made | 300BC-200BC |
| Section | Mediterranean |
| Materials | Ceramic |
| Description | Complete but for a few chips. One side very worn. Wheelmade. Hollow inside. Base flares in 2 degrees. Body basically cylindrical; on lower part 3 spaced tori of decreasing size, near top one large torus. Body is surmounted by small shallow cup with broad flat rim. Brown-black with added orange-red geometric/curvilinear decoration in horizontal registers of varying width. Includes vine-leaf pattern derived from West Slope ware on middle body, and lotus pattern on interior top. Medium heavy fabric. Fairly fine clay with bits and fine mica, fired drab-buff. |
| Height | 45.09 cm |
| Width | 13.65 cm |
| Credit Line | Museum Purchase; Subscription of John Wanamaker, 1896 |
| Other Number | 635 - Stevenson Etruscan Series Number |
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