Alabastron
MS555
Location: On Display in the Etruscan Italy Gallery
From: Italy | Etruria | Vulci
Curatorial Section: Mediterranean
| Object Number | MS555 |
| Current Location | Etruscan Italy Gallery - On Display |
| Culture | Greek | Etruscan |
| Provenience | Italy | Etruria | Vulci |
| Manufacture Location | Corinth |
| Creator | Altenburg Painter |
| Locus | Tomb 5 |
| Period | Early Corinthian |
| Date Made | 595-590 BCE |
| Section | Mediterranean |
| Materials | Ceramic |
| Iconography | Dancers |
| Description | Essentially flat resting surface (but with central depression) allowing vessel to stand. Wide heavy ovoid body tapering to narrow neck and wide overhanging disk. Handle emerges from neck and is continuous with disk. Round hole cut through handle at center. Three friezes. Top frieze: six padded dancers each with left arm raised, right arm down in field of thick filling ornament, blobs and incised rosettes. Middle frieze: nine dancers. Bottom frieze: eleven dancers - this is the lowest frieze (in height), the middle frieze being the tallest. |
| Height | 27.7 cm |
| Outside Diameter | 15 cm |
| Credit Line | Purchased from Francesco Mancinelli-Scotti, 1896 |
| Other Number | 9 - Stevenson Etruscan Series Number |
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