Ure Museum | Database

cite as: https://uremuseum.org/record/53.8.2

Accession_Number

53.8.2

Shape

Chalice

Shape_description

Rounded rim; steep angled wall; slightly sloping floor continuously curving to the stemmed foot with a high trumpet-shaped base below moulding. Offset on interior at join of wall and floor. Base mostly flat but conical at the centre. Cf. Toronto, Royal Ontario Museum 918.3.72: Hayes 1984, 100 no. C67 (ill.)

Material

Terracotta

Fabric

Etruscan

Fabric_description

Munsell_color

5YR 5/4

Decoration

Polished black surface. Relief decoration (exterior): three ridges with incised zig-zags on the middle ridge; four lions (incised details, especially on faces and tails) alternating with four moulded tongues; three ridges with incised zig-zags on the middle ridge.

Inscriptions

Condition

Foot rejoined below moulding. Missing a large piece of the rim; otherwise chipped on rim and base. Some chalky white deposits, especially on base.

Technique/Style

Bucchero; relief-decorated

Provenance

Cortona

Period

High Archaic

Date

550-525

Dating_details

Artist

Attribution

Image

2003.94.0029.jpg	Top view of an Etruscan bucchero chalice, showing the interior.
2003.94.0030.jpg	Side view of an Etruscan bucchero chalice, showing relief decoration (lions) on the exterior.
2003.94.0031.jpg	Side view of an Etruscan bucchero chalice, showing relief decoration (lions) on the exterior, and the broken rim.
2003.94.0032.jpg	Side view of an Etruscan bucchero chalice, showing relief decoration (lions) on the exterior.
2003.94.0033.jpg	Side view of an Etruscan bucchero chalice, showing relief decoration (lions) on the exterior.
2003.94.0034.jpg	Bottom view of an Etruscan bucchero chalice, showing the base with modern labels.
2007.05.0018.jpg
2008.10.0034.jpg	Profile view of an Etruscan bucchero chalice.
2008.99.0419.jpg	Oblique view of an Etruscan bucchero chalice, showing a missing portion of the rim.
2008.99.0420.jpg	CHALICE A CILINDRETTO
2008.99.0421.jpg	Side view of an Etruscan bucchero chalice, showing relief decoration (lions) on the exterior.
2008.99.0422.jpg	Side view of an Etruscan bucchero chalice, showing a mossing portion from the rim.
2008.99.0423.jpg	Side view of an Etruscan bucchero chalice, showing relief decoration (lions) on the exterior.
2008.99.0424.jpg	View of the base of an Etruscan bucchero chalice.
2008.99.0425.jpg	Top view of an Etruscan bucchero chalice, showing the interior.
2008.99.0707.jpg	Side view of an Etruscan bucchero chalice, showing relief decoration (lions) on the exterior.
2008.99.0708.jpg	Oblique side view of an Etruscan bucchero chalice, showing relief decoration (lions) on the exterior, and the broken rim.
2008.99.0709.jpg	Side view of an Etruscan bucchero chalice, showing relief decoration (lions) on the exterior.
2008.99.0710.jpg	Side view of an Etruscan bucchero chalice, showing relief decoration (lions) on the exterior.
2008.99.0711.jpg	Side view of an Etruscan bucchero chalice, showing relief decoration (lions) on the exterior.
2008.99.0712.jpg	Side view of an Etruscan bucchero chalice, showing relief decoration (lions) on the exterior.
2008.99.0713.jpg	View of the base of an Etruscan bucchero chalice.
2008.99.0714.jpg	Top view of an Etruscan bucchero chalice, showing the interior.