Cup
74-28-3
From: Italy | Etruria | Piombino
Curatorial Section: Mediterranean
| Object Number | 74-28-3 |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Culture | Italic | Etruscan |
| Provenience | Italy | Etruria | Piombino |
| Date Made | 700 BCE to 650 BCE |
| Section | Mediterranean |
| Materials | Ceramic |
| Technique | Impasto |
| Description | Tan impasto; 2 handled cup/amphora with lentoid body; see also 74-28-1, 74-28-2. Intact but for mended chip on floor. Base an irregular flattening, slightly concave underneath. Body low, wide, sharply carinated with two opposed sharpened warts at carination; contracting toward slightly flaring sharpened plain lip. Each handle is a twisted roll with small loop lying on lip and two plain attachments at outer shoulder. Fabric fairly fine, hand-burnished, fired brown to dark brown. |
| Height | 9 cm |
| Outside Diameter | 14.9 cm |
| Credit Line | Purchased from Alberto Barberi, 1974 |
| Other Number | L-744-3 - Old Loan Number |
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