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MS1472
From: Italy | Etruria | Toscanella
Curatorial Section: Mediterranean
| Object Number | MS1472 |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Culture | South Italian |
| Provenience | Italy | Etruria | Toscanella |
| Manufacture Location | South Italy |
| Locus | Toscanella Tomb |
| Date Made | 250-150 BCE |
| Section | Mediterranean |
| Materials | Ceramic |
| Technique | Black Glaze |
| Description | Omphalos dish. Pale buff clay with dark brown slip, slight shipping about the rim. Rouletted decoration around the omphalos. Within the rouletted band are two flower stamps alternating with stamps of indeterminate creatures with forked tails - scorpions or perhaps dolphins. Interior of the omphalos deeply scored this: (see image). Fabric hard fired and thin. |
| Height | 3.3 cm |
| Outside Diameter | 15.6 cm |
| Credit Line | Museum Purchase; Subscription of John Wanamaker, 1896 |
| Other Number | 1079 - Stevenson Etruscan Series Number |
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