Zoomorphic Vase
Aryballos
MS558
Location: On Display in the Etruscan Italy Gallery
From: Italy | Etruria | Vulci
Curatorial Section: Mediterranean
| Object Number | MS558 |
| Current Location | Etruscan Italy Gallery - On Display |
| Culture | Etruscan |
| Provenience | Italy | Etruria | Vulci |
| Locus | Tomb 5 |
| Section | Mediterranean |
| Materials | Ceramic |
| Technique | Handmade | Etrusco-Corinthian |
| Iconography | Doe |
| Description | Plastic vase: doe. Two hooves, a chip from the neck, and the stopper in the form of the head, missing. Handmade. Seated doe with legs folded beneath her. The hooves, the fetlocks, the knees, the corresponding joins on the hind legs, the tail, and the band about the neck are painted matt brown. The rest of the vase, except the belly, covereed with fine brown dots. Clean pale buff clay. |
| Height | 7.4 cm |
| Length | 14.5 cm |
| Credit Line | Purchased from Francesco Mancinelli-Scotti, 1896 |
| Other Number | 102 - Stevenson Etruscan Series Number |
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