Skyphos
MS2808
From: Italy | Etruria | Falisca
Curatorial Section: Mediterranean
Object Number | MS2808 |
Current Location | Collections Storage |
Provenience | Italy | Etruria | Falisca |
Manufacture Location | South Italy |
Locus | Fossa Tomb 2 | Pit Grave 2 |
Date Made | 5th century BCE |
Section | Mediterranean |
Materials | Ceramic |
Technique | Superposed Color |
Description | Complete: 2 sections glued together. Torus foot. A line, wheel-painted, encircles pot part way up lower wall. This serves as a base-line for a framed panel on each side. In the panel on each side is a horizontal spray of olive; above this on each side is a horizontal toothed design just below lip. Most of the color has disappeared from the decoration leaving "footprints"; pale yellow is still preserved, however, in the toothed designs and in the framing lines. Underside unglazed except for inner face of foot. |
Height | 8.26 cm |
Width | 15.88 cm |
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