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Accession_Number 50.4.6
Shape Jug
Shape_description Flaring mouth with rounded rim on the top. Circular vertical handle rising over the rim, connecting the rim and the shoulder.
Material
Fabric Etruscan
Fabric_description
Munsell_color
Decoration Bucchero (black polished surface)
Inscriptions
Condition Mended from a number of joining fragments. Small fragment from the body is missing. Gloss is quite lustrous on the exterior, but rough and worn on the interior and the underside of the foot. Chips around the rim and the body. Deposits on the underside.
Technique/Style Bucchero
Provenance Said to be from Pompeii
Period
Date
Dating_details
Artist
Attribution
Image

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Left side view of an Etruscan bucchero jug with 'ear'-shaped handle.

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Front view of an Etruscan bucchero jug with 'ear'-shaped handle.

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Right side view of an Etruscan bucchero jug with 'ear'-shaped handle.

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Back view of an Etruscan bucchero jug with 'ear'-shaped handle.

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Top view of an Etruscan bucchero jug with 'ear'-shaped handle.

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Oblique view, from slightly above, of the left of an Etruscan bucchero jug with 'ear'-shaped handle.

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Bottom view of an Etruscan bucchero jug, showing the base.

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Front view of an Etruscan bucchero jug.

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Profile drawing of an Etruscan bucchero jug.

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Oblique top view of the left side of an Etruscan bucchero jug.

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Left side view of an Etruscan bucchero jug, showing the handle.

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Front view of an Etruscan bucchero jug.

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Right side view of an Etruscan bucchero jug, showing the handle.

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Back view of an Etruscan bucchero jug, showing the front of the handle.

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Top view of an Etruscan bucchero jug, showing the rim.

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Bottom view of an Etruscan bucchero jug, showing the base.
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Beazley_DB
Height 13.7
Diameters Rim 5.8; body 8.7; neck 4.2; base 4.4
Handle_height 6.8
Other_dims.
Location 7.1.3
Edited_by Denise; Julia
Date_edited 08.08.2002; 18.05.2016
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