Cup

74-28-3

From: Italy | Etruria | Piombino

Curatorial Section: Mediterranean

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Object Number 74-28-3
Current Location Collections Storage
Culture Italic | Etruscan
Provenience Italy | Etruria | Piombino
Date Made 700 BCE to 650 BCE
Section Mediterranean
Materials Ceramic
Technique Impasto
Description

tan impasto; 2 handled cup/amphora with lentoid body; see also 74-28-1, 74-28-2. Intact but for mended chip on floor. Base an irregular flattening, slightly concave underneath. Body low, wide, sharply carinated with two opposed sharpened warts at carination; 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 9 cm
Outside Diameter 14.9 cm
Credit Line Purchased from Alberto Barberi, 1974
Other Number L-744-3 - Old Loan Number

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