Amphora
MS994A
From: Italy | Etruria | Narce
Curatorial Section: Mediterranean
| Object Number | MS994A |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Culture | Faliscan | Etruscan |
| Provenience | Italy | Etruria | Narce |
| Locus | Tomb 102F |
| Section | Mediterranean |
| Materials | Ceramic |
| Description | Amphora: one handle modern. Fabric of mideium fine texture, black at core, outer surface brownish buff. Handmade. Once covered with cream slip now largely effaced. Red design: band below lip, around body two zones of zigzags between bands. In the strap handle two triangles and two dots countersunk. Shape like spiral amphorae. |
| Height | 10.5 cm |
| Outside Diameter | 11.6 cm |
| Credit Line | Purchased from Giuseppe Ficola, 1896 |
| Other Number | 490 - Stevenson Etruscan Series Number |
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