| Accession_Number | 2016.5.3 | ||||||||
| Shape | Olpe (Jug) | ||||||||
| Shape_description | Flaring mouth, wide elongated conical neck, separated from a large ovoid body by a moulded groove. Small round foot. Handle is missing. | ||||||||
| Material | Terracotta | ||||||||
| Fabric | Etruscan | ||||||||
| Fabric_description | Polished bucchero | ||||||||
| Munsell_color | |||||||||
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| Condition | Handle is missing. Handle fracture on the rim and on the shoulder of the vase shows that it was a "ribbon handle". Some white chips on the body, neck and the interior of the mouth. White deposits on the underside of the foot. | ||||||||
| Technique/Style | Bucchero | ||||||||
| Provenance | Orvieto (written on the vase label) | ||||||||
| Period | Archaic | ||||||||
| Date | 600-550 B.C. | ||||||||
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| Bibliography | On the genesis and chronology of bucchero shapes: P. Mingazzini, Vasi della Collezione Castellani, Roma 1930; Magi, La raccolta Benedetto Guglielmi nel Museo Gregoriano Etrusco, Città del Vaticano 1939, part I, 111 ss. | ||||||||
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| Height | 13 | ||||||||
| Diameters | 8.5 | ||||||||
| Handle_height | |||||||||
| Other_dims. | Neck h: 5; Neck diameter:5.5; Rim diameter: 7.5. Body h:7. Lenght of the fracture of the rim: 4.5; fracture on the shoulder: 2.5 | ||||||||
| Location | 9.2.2 | ||||||||
| Edited_by | Claudia Pinci; Jayne | ||||||||
| Date_edited | 13/05/2016; 14.12.23 |
