Cup
Amphora
74-28-2
From: Italy | Etruria | Piombino
Curatorial Section: Mediterranean
| Object Number | 74-28-2 |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Culture | Italic | Etruscan |
| Provenience | Italy | Etruria | Piombino |
| Date Made | 700 BCE to 650 BCE |
| Section | Mediterranean |
| Materials | Ceramic |
| Description | Orientalizing cup/Amphora; fine tan impasto 2-handled cup/amphora with lentoid body; see also: 74-28-1, 74-28-3. Wheelmade, intact. Base an irregular flattening, slightly concave underneath. Body low, wide, sharply carinated with two opposed sharpened warts at carination; shoulder short, sloping. Neck wide, short, contracting toward slightly flaring, sharpened plain lip. Each handle is a twisted roll with small loop lying on lip and two plain attachments at outer shoulder. Fabric fairly fine, hand-burnished, fired brown to dark brown. |
| Height | 8.8 cm |
| Outside Diameter | 14 cm |
| Credit Line | Purchased from Alberto Barberi, 1974 |
| Other Number | L-744-2 - Old Loan Number |
Report problems and issues to digitalmedia@pennmuseum.org.