Vase Carrier

MS1171

From: Italy | Etruria | Narce

Curatorial Section: Mediterranean

Object Number MS1171
Current Location Collections Storage
Culture Faliscan | Etruscan
Provenience Italy | Etruria | Narce
Locus Tomb 42M
Section Mediterranean
Materials Ceramic
Description

Pottery. Rim chipped. Fabric of medium fine texture, cinder grey at core; buff below surface, surface red. Base and top wheelmade, bulb handmade. Poor polish. Design in white; along grooved rim, traces; lower rim, transverse lines; on bulb, horizontal bands; upper zone of base, cross hatched butterfly motifs in metopes, a lattice pattern and traces of parallel chevrons, pointing down.

Height 31 cm
Outside Diameter 22 cm
Credit Line Purchased from Francesco Mancinelli-Scotti, 1896
Other Number 673 - Stevenson Etruscan Series Number

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