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MS2498

Location: On Display in the Greece Gallery

From: Italy | Etruria | Orvieto

Curatorial Section: Mediterranean

Object Number MS2498
Current Location Greece Gallery - On Display
Culture Attic
Provenience Italy | Etruria | Orvieto
Manufacture Location Attica
Section Mediterranean
Materials Ceramic
Technique Black Figure
Iconography Gorgoneion | Eye | Helmet | Warfare | Warrior
Description

Eye cup. Broken and mended from many pieces; frr. missing from floor and rim and large chip from foot. Badly restored. Flat spreading foot with plain profile; wide hollow stem, raised ring at its top. Rim continuous with body, ends of handles bent upward slightly. Interior: central medallion with Gorgoneion, RF technique. Purple dots on hair, and for tongue; white for teeth and lines of hair. Exterior: A. Helmet, right between the eyes; grape tendrils and clusters in a field. White around irises of eyes and for row of dots on crest of helmet; purple for pupils of eyes, stripe on helmet crest, and leaves of wreath around helmet; Exterior B: same as A. The glaze peeled in places, especially on side B.

Height 9 cm
Outside Diameter 22.2 cm
Credit Line Purchased from Riccardo Mancini; Subscription of John Wanamaker, 1896
Other Number 956 - Stevenson Etruscan Series Number

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