Bowl
Pyxidion
MS2759
From: Italy | Etruria | Narce
Curatorial Section: Mediterranean
| Object Number | MS2759 |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Culture | Faliscan | Etruscan |
| Provenience | Italy | Etruria | Narce |
| Locus | Tomb 1 (?) |
| Date Made | 600 BCE to 500 BCE |
| Section | Mediterranean |
| Materials | Ceramic |
| Technique | Etrusco-Corinthian |
| Iconography | Animals | Bird |
| Description | Etrusco-Corinthian lentoid pyxis; animal frieze (birds). Pottery. Italic imitation of a Corinthian bowl; intact; fabric and technique like MS2732; on lip rays; on shoulder, two ducks and filling ornaments with free use of incisions and purple color on breast and wings of the ducks; two fine lines of dilute golden brown between base and shoulder line, and on the foot. Cream clay, fine texture. Shape: short foot with rounded edge. Body depressed spherical shape. Two deep concentric grooves at shoulder. No neck. Lip short, slightly flaring. Rim narrow, wide mouth. No handles. |
| Height | 6.4 cm |
| Outside Diameter | 9.1 cm |
| Credit Line | Purchased from Francesco Mancinelli-Scotti; Subscription of Phebe A. Hearst, 1898 |
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