Amphora
MS1437
From: Italy | Etruria | Toscanella
Curatorial Section: Mediterranean
| 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 |
Report problems and issues to digitalmedia@pennmuseum.org.




