Head Vase
L-64-242
Location: On Display in the Greece Gallery
From: South Italy
Curatorial Section: Mediterranean
| Object Number | L-64-242 |
| Current Location | Greece Gallery - On Display |
| Culture | South Italian |
| Provenience | South Italy |
| Manufacture Location | South Italy |
| Date Made | ca. 400 BCE |
| Section | Mediterranean |
| Materials | Ceramic |
| Iconography | Female Head |
| Description | Female head to lower neck. Hair parted in the middle waved away from forehead on both sides. Large plain earrings, the lower drop ovoid. Neck of vessel rises from middle of top of head. Trefoil spout. Stub for lower attachment of handle in middle of back of head. Flat bottom. Intact save for missing handle and back of spout. Hard buff clay, no glaze or other decoration. |
| Height | 20 cm |
| Outside Diameter | 8.2 cm |
| Other Number | 99-376 - Philadelphia Museum of Art Number |
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