Vase Carrier
MS1171
From: Italy | Etruria | Narce
Curatorial Section: Mediterranean
| Object Number | MS1171 |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Culture | Faliscan | Etruscan |
| Provenience | Italy | Etruria | Narce |
| Locus | Tomb 42M |
| Section | Mediterranean |
| Materials | Ceramic |
| Description | Pottery. Rim chipped. Fabric of medium fine texture, cinder grey at core; buff below surface, surface red. Base and top wheelmade, bulb handmade. Poor polish. Design in white; along grooved rim, traces; lower rim, transverse lines; on bulb, horizontal bands; upper zone of base, cross hatched butterfly motifs in metopes, a lattice pattern and traces of parallel chevrons, pointing down. |
| Height | 31 cm |
| Outside Diameter | 22 cm |
| Credit Line | Purchased from Francesco Mancinelli-Scotti, 1896 |
| Other Number | 673 - Stevenson Etruscan Series Number |
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