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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.
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Oblique view, from above, of an Etruscan black-figure stemmed dish.

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Oblique view of an Etruscan black-figure stemmed dish.

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Side view of Etruscan black-figure stemmed dish.

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Top view of Etruscan stemmed black-figure dish showing 'Z' pattern around rim.

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Bottom view of Etruscan black-figure stemmed dish, showing reserved base.

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Front view of an Etruscan black-figure stemmed dish.

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Oblique view of an Etruscan stemmed dish, showing the pattern around the rim.

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Top view of the top of an Etruscan stemmed dish, showing the pattern around the rim.

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Beazley_DB
Height 5.3
Diameters Rim 10.1, stem (min.) 2.1, base 6.0
Handle_height
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Location Timeline 2 top
Edited_by Denise; Amy; Kinsey
Date_edited 11.09.2002; 09.09.2004; 17.01.2006
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