Cup
MS1458
From: Italy | Etruria | Toscanella
Curatorial Section: Mediterranean
| Object Number | MS1458 |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Provenience | Italy | Etruria | Toscanella |
| Locus | Toscanella Tomb |
| Date Made | 699-600 BCE |
| Section | Mediterranean |
| Materials | Ceramic |
| Description | Bowl with high loop handle. Pale buff fabric, thoroughly levigated and very fragile. Decoration in applied red. Alternate red and reserved bands encircle the bowl from lip to neck whence a metope system of checkerboard diamonds alternating with panels of 6 vertical lines. Below this, alternate red and reserved bands with a broad red band at the bottom. Suggestive of Proto-Corinthian ware. |
| Height | 11.3 cm |
| Credit Line | Museum Purchase; Subscription of John Wanamaker, 1896 |
| Other Number | 1041 - Stevenson Etruscan Series Number |
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