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Accession_Number 51.7.3
Shape Face mug
Shape_description Flaring lip with rounded rim, sharply joined to ovoid body; single round, curved vertical handle rises up from alongside the lip and rejoins at the shoulder; lower part of body sharply joins to a short, flaring foot, concave on the underside, with a pointed underside.
Material Terracotta
Fabric Etruscan
Fabric_description
Munsell_color 5YR 6/1
Decoration On the body, opposite the handle, is modelled a triangular human face, with slanted eyebrows, bulging closed eyes, a straight pointed nose, tight lips, and a pointed chin.
Inscriptions
Condition Intact. The rim mended from 2 fragments. Small chips to rim. Lustre remains although some paint has chipped away around rim, handle. Slight scratches and chips on body. White deposits on the underside of the foot.
Technique/Style Bucchero
Provenance
Period High Archaic
Date 575-550
Dating_details
Artist
Attribution
Image

2004.01.0005.jpg		Oblique 3/4-view, from above, of the front of an Etruscan bucchero mug, showing a human face pinched in relief on the body.

2004.01.0006.jpg		Left side view of an Etruscan bucchero mug, showing the handle and a human face pinched in relief on the body.

2004.01.0007.jpg		3/4-view of the right side of an Etruscan bucchero mug, showing a human face pinched in relief on the body.

2004.01.0008.jpg		Oblique view, from above, of the front of an Etruscan bucchero mug, showing top of handle, rim, and a human face pinched in relief on the body.

2008.10.0032.jpg		Drowing of the profile of an Etruscan bucchero mug.

2008.98.0367.jpg		Oblique 3/4-view, from above, of the front of an Etruscan bucchero mug, showing a human face pinched in relief on the body.

2008.98.0369.jpg		Detailed view of the front of an Etruscan bucchero mug, showing a human face pinched in relief on the body.

2008.98.0370.jpg		Detailed frontal view of an Etruscan bucchero mug, showing a human face pinched in relief on the body.

2008.98.0371.jpg		Front view of an Etruscan bucchero mug, showing a human face pinched in relief on the body.

2008.98.0374.jpg		Profile view of the left side of an Etruscan bucchero mug, showing a human face pinched in relief on the body.

2008.98.0375.jpg		Back view of an Etruscan bucchero mug, showing the back of the handle.

2008.98.0377.jpg		Profile view of the right side of an Etruscan bucchero mug, showing a human face pinched in relief on the body, and the handle, to right.

2008.98.0380.jpg		Bottom view of an Etruscan bucchero mug, showing the base.

2008.98.0382.jpg		Top view of an Etruscan bucchero mug, decorated with a face pinched into the exterior wall, showing the mouth and top of handle.

2008.98.0383.jpg		Top view of an Etruscan bucchero mug, showing the mouth and a human face pinched in relief on the body.
Comparanda For the type see G. Colonna, 'Il ciclo etrusco-corinzio dei Rosoni,' StEtr 29 (1961) 65. Cf. Getty 83.AE.299 (identical except that the Getty handle attaches to the shoulder) : CVA Getty 6 (USA 31) pl. 328; GettyMusJ 12 (1984) 249 no. 94. Cf. also Tolfa, Tomb IX (loc. Ferrone): Colonna 65 no. 4); Cerveteri, Tomb 303 (MonAnt 42 [1955] col. 783, fig. 175; I.E.M. Edlund, The Iron Age and Etruscan Vases in the Olcott collection at Columbia University, New York. TAPS 70.1 (1980) 35-36 no. 47. More primitive faces see Schaal, Gr. Vasen aus Frankfurter Sammlungen pl. 26 f.; OJh 6 (1903) 67 f., figs. 30, 32
Bibliography Ure 1963, 62 no. 25, fig. 18.
Archive_Ref
Beazley_DB
Height without handle: 10.3, with:10.7
Diameters Rim 6.9; body 7.9; base 4.5
Handle_height 4.5
Other_dims. H. to top of rim 10.2 H. of face relief 3.2
Location Timeline 3 top
Edited_by Denise; Amy; Kinsey; Teifi
Date_edited 08.08.2002; 03.12.2004; 16.01.2006; 16.08.2006
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