Bowl

MS917

From: Italy | Etruria | Narce

Curatorial Section: Mediterranean

Object Number MS917
Current Location Collections Storage
Culture Faliscan | Etruscan
Provenience Italy | Etruria | Narce
Locus Tomb 109F
Section Mediterranean
Materials Ceramic
Description

Pottery. Rim broken. Fabric like MS918 but black at core, outer surface copper red, light red beneath the rim implaying a color wash. Wheel-made. Two zones of white decoration can be traced; upper divided into metopes in each of which is a butterfly ornament; lower filled with a continuous band of lattice pattern.

Height 17.7 cm
Outside Diameter 21 cm
Credit Line Purchased from Giuseppe Ficola, 1896
Other Number 534 - Stevenson Etruscan Series Number

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