Trefoil Jug
74-27-1
From: Italy | Sicily | Gulf of Augusta
Curatorial Section: Mediterranean
| Object Number | 74-27-1 |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Culture | Italic |
| Provenience | Italy | Sicily | Gulf of Augusta |
| Date Made | 599-500 BCE |
| Section | Mediterranean |
| Materials | Ceramic |
| Technique | Semi-Glazed |
| Description | Complete but for some large new chips from rim. Underfloor slightly concave; base slightly flaring and hollow. Body ovoid joining smoothly into a wide short straight-sided neck. Rim trefoil with flaring thin short lip. Handle a flat vertical band from back of trefoil to greatest diameter. Thin black/red glaze from inside lip (carelessly applied) down exterior to just below greatest diameter. Glaze popped off where attacked by salts. Ware thin; clay fine, well smoothed. Micaceous. Fired dull buff to pinkish. |
| Height | 12.2 cm |
| Width | 6.5 cm |
| Outside Diameter | 8 cm |
| Credit Line | Gift of John A. Juhas, 1974 |
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