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Accession_Number

45.3.1

Shape

Alabastron

Shape_description

Everted rim below which is attached a pinched handle with a string hole; elongated piniform body.

Material

Terracotta

Fabric

Etruscan

Fabric_description

Munsell_color

10YR 8/4

Decoration

Decorated on top of mouth and neck with black tongues. Handle with two dots (rows?). Body decorated with two figural zones with plain bands framing and between. Top: two facing cocks and a long-billed bird to the right; incised rosettes in field. Bottom: two panthers facing a long-billed bird; incised rosettes in field. Incised details on birds and rosettes (divided into four, six, or eight sections). Traces of purple on all animals. Bottom: small ring inside two concentric bands.

Inscriptions

Condition

Good condition. Scratches on the body. Small chips on the body. Gloss flaking off the rosettes and the body of the animals.

Technique/Style

Polychrome; incised

Provenance

Period

High Archaic

Date

575-550

Dating_details

Artist

Matsch Group; Circle of the Facing Cocks

Attribution

Szilágyi 1998, 629/34: incised details on birds, particularly 'collars' on necks, are comparable, e.g. to those on Milan, Raccolte Archeologiche A. 1525 (Szilágyi 1998, 628/23).

Image

	Side view of an Etrusco-Corinthian alabastron, showing animal designs on the body.
	Side view of an Etrusco-Corinthian alabastron, showing animal designs on the body.
	Side view of an Etrusco-Corinthian alabastron, showing animal designs on the body.
2003.32.0003.jpg	Back view of an Etrusco-Corinthian alabastron, showing a cock in the upper register and panther tails in the lower register.
2003.32.0004.jpg	Left side view of an Etrusco-Corinthian alabastron, showing cocks above panthers.
2003.39.0002.jpg	Two alabastra (27.4.10 at left and 45.3.1 at right).
2003.39.0093.jpg	Back view of an Etrusco-Corinthian alabastron, showing cocks above panthers.
2003.57.0001.jpg	Geometricising amphoriskos (74.7.1) at left and Etrusco-Corinthian alabastron (45.3.1) at right.
2003.57.0099.jpg	Left side view of an Etrusco-Corinthian alabastron, showing a cock above a panther.
2003.97.0266.jpg	Bottom view of an Etrusco-Corinthian alabastron, showing the base decorated with three concentric circles.
2003.97.0267.jpg	Top view of an Etrusco-Corinthian alabastron, showing the flat lip.
2003.97.0268.jpg	Side view of an Etrusco-Corinthian alabastron, showing animal designs on the body.
2003.97.0269.jpg	Side view of an Etrusco-Corinthian alabastron, showing animal designs on the body.
2003.97.0270.jpg	Bottom view of an Etrusco-Corinthian alabastron, showing the base decorated with three concentric circles.
2003.97.0271.jpg	Top view of an Etrusco-Corinthian alabastron, showing daisy pattern on flat rim.
2004.99.0417.jpg	Top view of an Etrusco-Corinthian alabastron, showing daisy pattern on flat rim.
2004.99.0418.jpg	Right side view of an (upside down) Etrusco-Corinthian alabastron, showing animal designs on the body.
2004.99.0419.jpg	Front view of an Etrusco-Corinthian alabastron, showing a long-billed bird in the lower section.
2004.99.0420.jpg	Left side view of an Etrusco-Corinthian alabastron, showing animal design on the body.
2004.99.0421.jpg	Back view of an Etrusco-Corinthian alabastron, showing animal designs on the body.
2004.99.0422.jpg	Bottom view of an Etrusco-Corinthian alabastron, showing three concentric black bands decorating the underside.
2004.99.0423.jpg	Detailed view of an Etrusco-Corinthian alabastron, showing a panther facing a long-billed bird (from lower frieze).
2004.99.0424.jpg	Detailed view of an Etrusco-Corinthian alabastron, showing a panther facing a long-billed bird (from lower frieze).
2004.99.0425.jpg	Detailed view of an Etrusco-Corinthian alabastron, showing a cock (from upper frieze).
2004.99.0426.jpg	Detailed view of an Etrusco-Corinthian alabastron, showing a long-billed bird (from upper frieze).