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Accession_Number 12.10.1
Shape Mask
Shape_description Fragment
Material Terracotta
Fabric Etruscan
Fabric_description
Munsell_color 5Y 3/2
Decoration Mask of woman in high relief with wig-like mass of hair with lightly incised zigzags. Projecting ornament. Perhaps decoration from a portable brazier or perhaps a fireplace decoration.
Inscriptions
Condition Chipped on one side; lustre remains
Technique/Style Bucchero
Provenance From Orvieto
Period Archaic
Date 550
Dating_details
Artist
Attribution
Image

2004.03.0014.jpg
Front view of an Etruscan bucchero ornament, perhaps from a portable brazier, showing the face of a woman in high relief.

2019.99.0023.jpg
Front view of an Etruscan bucchero ornament, perhaps from a portable brazier, showing the face of a woman in high relief.

2019.99.0024.jpg
Front view of an Etruscan bucchero ornament, perhaps from a portable brazier, showing the face of a woman in high relief.

2019.99.0025.jpg
Side view of an Etruscan bucchero ornament, perhaps from a portable brazier, showing the face of a woman in profile view.

2019.99.0026.jpg
Back view of an Etruscan bucchero ornament, perhaps from a portable brazier.

2019.99.0027.jpg
Side view of an Etruscan bucchero ornament, perhaps from a portable brazier, showing the face of a woman in profile view.
Comparanda
Bibliography CVA Reading 1, pl. 38.5
Archive_Ref reference 1
Beazley_DB
Height 7.2
Diameters Max. 9.0
Handle_height
Other_dims. Width where fragment joins to whole object 2.1
Location Household
Edited_by Denise; Karen; Kinsey
Date_edited 08.08.2002; 21.04.2004; 09.01.2006
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