Skyphos
Kotyle
MS2751
Location: On Display in the Etruscan Italy Gallery
From: Italy | Etruria | Narce
Curatorial Section: Mediterranean
| Object Number | MS2751 |
| Current Location | Etruscan Italy Gallery - On Display |
| Culture | Faliscan | Etruscan |
| Provenience | Italy | Etruria | Narce |
| Locus | Tomb 1 |
| Date Made | 7th century BCE |
| Section | Mediterranean |
| Materials | Ceramic |
| Technique | Impasto |
| Iconography | Bird |
| Description | Pottery; intact; fabric like MS2736-39; pale chocolate at core, darker on surface; wheel-made; rim slightly inset; handles flat and angular. Under each handle three conventic foliates incised so deeply as to leave outlines embossed on interior. Main decoration: incised bird, similar to bird on MS2739 except body filled with dots instead of lines. Below rim line of dots in rectangular frame. Dots neatly cut and with the lines of decoration were once filled with red pigment. |
| Height | 8.4 cm |
| Width | 13.97 cm |
| Outside Diameter | 9.3 cm |
| Credit Line | Purchased from Francesco Mancinelli-Scotti; Subscription of Phebe A. Hearst, 1898 |
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