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Accession_Number

REDMG:1934.53.4

Shape

Stemmed dish

Shape_description

Broad flaring lip, convex on the upper surface, with a downturned rim, offset from a concave shallow bowl; hollow high stem offset from plate but spreading at the bottom into a disk foot, hollowed on the interior.

Material

Terracotta

Fabric

Etruscan

Fabric_description

Munsell_color

7.5YR 6/4

Decoration

Lip decorated with a band of sloping 'z's; black band on rim; bowl decorated with central dot, two concentric circles and a broad band where the plate joins the rim; stem and upper surface of foot black, otherwise reserved.

Inscriptions

Condition

Interior of dish slightly chipped; scratches around the rim.

Technique/Style

Black figure

Provenance

Said to be from Rome

Period

Late Archaic

Date

525-475

Dating_details

Artist

Orvieto Group

Attribution

A.C. Smith. Shirley Schwarz, 'The Pattern Class Vases of the 'Gruppo di Orvieto' in the U.S. National Museum Collection, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.' StEtr 47 (1979) 75-80 publishes 17 examples of this class, none of which, however, are decorated with the 'z'. That pattern does, however, appear on chalices in the same group: see Schwarz 1979, 72 fig. 2d.

Image

2003.93.0204.jpg	Oblique view, from above, of an Etruscan black-figure stemmed dish.
2003.97.0914.jpg	Oblique view of an Etruscan black-figure stemmed dish.
2003.97.0915.jpg	Side view of Etruscan black-figure stemmed dish.
2003.97.0916.jpg	Top view of Etruscan stemmed black-figure dish showing 'Z' pattern around rim.
2003.97.0917.jpg	Bottom view of Etruscan black-figure stemmed dish, showing reserved base.
2004.99.0435.jpg	Front view of an Etruscan black-figure stemmed dish.
2004.99.0436.jpg	Oblique view of an Etruscan stemmed dish, showing the pattern around the rim.
2004.99.0437.jpg	Top view of the top of an Etruscan stemmed dish, showing the pattern around the rim.
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