Lid

MS2582

From: Italy

Curatorial Section: Mediterranean

Object Number MS2582
Current Location Collections Storage
Provenience Italy
Date Made 4th century BCE
Section Mediterranean
Materials Ceramic
Technique Black Glaze
Description

Lid has very gentle slope. Knob is roughly spherical, pointed at the top. Glazed: knob and circular area immediately around it; a band at mid-point on slope; a wider band around edge of top. Underside unglazed and without flange. Clay varies from finely micaceous pink to a pinkish brown. Glaze is black but metallic. Broken but complete except for one fairly large chip.

Height 11.43 cm
Outside Diameter 33.02 cm
Credit Line Museum Purchase; Subscription of John Wanamaker, 1896
Other Number 11 - Other Number

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