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 | |
Decoration | |
Inscriptions | |
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. |
Dating_details | |
Artist | |
Attribution | |
Image | |
Comparanda | |
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. |
Archive_Ref | |
Beazley_DB | |
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 |