Alabastron
MS966
Location: On Display in the Greece Gallery
From: Italy | Etruria | Narce
Curatorial Section: Mediterranean
| Object Number | MS966 |
| Current Location | Greece Gallery - On Display |
| Culture | Faliscan | Etruscan |
| Provenience | Italy | Etruria | Narce |
| Manufacture Location | Corinth |
| Locus | Tomb 64B |
| Period | Middle Corinthian Period |
| Date Made | 590-585 BCE |
| Section | Mediterranean |
| Materials | Ceramic |
| Description | Alabastron. Complete except for a small section of body. The body is largely covered by the painted representation of two cocks, confronted, with a double lotus between them. In the field are 3 incised rosettes. On the botton a 6 petal flower. Tongue pattern at top of neck. A row of dots around edge of lip. Radiating tongue pattern on top of lip. Creamy white clay. |
| Height | 10 cm |
| Outside Diameter | 5.5 cm |
| Credit Line | Purchased from Fausto Benedetti, 1896 |
| Other Number | 622 - Stevenson Etruscan Series Number |
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