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MS1437

From: Italy | Etruria | Toscanella

Curatorial Section: Mediterranean

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Object Number MS1437
Current Location Collections Storage
Provenience Italy | Etruria | Toscanella
Locus Toscanella Tomb
Date Made 225-175 BCE
Section Mediterranean
Materials Ceramic
Description

Buff clay with a red coating under a brownish-black slip. A reserved band just above the low ring base. Two small channelled handles attached at the high shoulder and at the neck, Steep, low rim. Glaze worn off on one side. This side also has an accidental shallow indentation with a thin, short, vertical crack rising from it and going right through the wall of the pot. An attempt was made to impress two broad grooves around the pot below the handles.

Height 17.6 cm
Outside Diameter 13.6 cm
Credit Line Museum Purchase; Subscription of John Wanamaker, 1896
Other Number 1018 - Stevenson Etruscan Series Number

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