Lebes Gamikos

MS206

From: Italy | Apulia | Rugge

Curatorial Section: Mediterranean

Object Number MS206
Current Location Collections Storage
Culture South Italian
Provenience Italy | Apulia | Rugge
Section Mediterranean
Materials Ceramic
Technique Black Glaze
Description

Ring foot, profile sloping diagonally outward. Deep body with steeply rounded profile. Sharp articulation at join of body and shoulder. Lip concave in profile. Loop handles attached to shoulder, rising nearly vertically to a little above top of lip. Body ribbed continuously all the way around. Very indistinct traces of applied decoration in white on shoulder and on side of rim. Oyster-white clay. Dark gray glaze except on underside of foot and in a band just above join of foot and wall. Intact.

Height 12.7 cm
Depth 11.75 cm
Credit Line Gift of Charles C. Harrison, 1894

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