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Hearst Museum object titled Alabastron, accession number 8-3301, described as Boeotian black-figure alabastron; put together from large fragments, mouth alien (Corinthian) but ancient; clay warm brown, of mouth white; A, male siren to left; B, lotus; sparse filling ornament; main frieze framed by rosette frieze and dicing; on neck tongues; underneath rosette with central hollow.
Hearst Museum object titled Alabastron, accession number 8-3371, described as Corinthian black-figure alabastron; intact; paint worn in parts; added purple-red color; on body: bird between 2 lions, incised filling rosettes; under vase, rosette with central depression; on mouth and neck, red and black tongues; dots on rim.
Hearst Museum object titled Alabastron, accession number 8-3302, described as Corinthian black-figure alabastron; intact; glaze severely worn on lower back and base; red paint badly preserved; 2 seated, confronted sphinxes; filling of dots and rosettes; above, band between 2 pairs of lines; below, 2 lines, glaze band; on base, 5 concentric circles; on neck, tongues; rim dotted; round mouth, concentric circles.
Hearst Museum object titled Alabastron, accession number 8-521, described as Long alabastron
Hearst Museum object titled Alabastron, accession number 8-354, described as tc, 9 warriors
Hearst Museum object titled Altar miniature, accession number 8-2355, described as Terracotta, small alter (?) open at bottom, on projecting base. On front face it beats relief scene of swan- like bird who flies with outstretched wing to right with human figure on his back. Figure probably woman, wears long garment and seems to hold veil Tan; coarse, thick fabric.
Hearst Museum object titled Amphora, accession number 8-446, described as Black-figured amphora, squatters
Hearst Museum object titled Amphora, accession number 8-1567, described as Big red amphora. Description from Matteucig (1951): Jar; height: 37.5 cm; diameter: 31.5 cm (see Matteucig's plate VI, 2). Impasto type D. Clay, slip, and paint as in 8-1564, 8-1565, 8-1566. Low neck with slightly flaring lip; ovoid body on low, hollow foot; vertical handles. Slip badly faded; also decoration: geometric design reconstructed in figure 12. Vase is a restoration from several pieces; many cracks. For an interesting example, somewhat similar in shape, but in reversed technique (white on red), cf. the vase from south Etruria in C.V.A., British Museum, fasc. 7, IV B, a, pl. 9, 1; see also C.W.A., Scheurleer, fasc. 1, IV B, pl. 1, no. 1.
Hearst Museum object titled Amphora, accession number 8-3378, described as Etruscan Red-figure amphora with twisted handles; broken and mended from several pieces with repainting over cracks; A, Warrior (sheild device a mug) and woman at stele; both hold flower of leaves in one hand; B, woman, and warrior pouring libation from patera; beneath scemnes, maeander punctuated by rosette motifs
Hearst Museum object titled Amphora, accession number 8-1863, described as Etrusco-Corinthian amphora. Attributed to the Monte Abatone Painter; ca. 630 BCE. Description from Matteucig (1951): Amphora; height: 28.5 cm; diameter: 22 cm (see Matteucig's plate XIX, 19). Italo-Corinthian. Clay pinkish cream; cream slip; dark brown, red, and gray paint. High neck with thick curving lip; strap handles; squat ovoid body on low flat base. Inside mouth, for about 3 cm, brown band; three incised lines on lip; neck solid brown, with a line of cream dots just above fillet; on edges of handles, brown vertical stripes; on flat side of handles, at point of contact with lip and shoulder, three horizontal stripes; on shoulder, three groups of seven to ten tongues; below tongues, anar row red band, a reserved line, then a red and gray band; broad brown band with double incised, interlaced, semicircles; anar row gray band; a broader red one and a narrow reserved; another broad red band; broad reserved zone; bottom solid brown. Vase restored from several pieces; surface, scratched; paint peeling off. For similar examples, cf. Not. Sc., 1903, p. 272, fig. 5, from Pitigliano; J. Boehlau, Aus ionischen und italischen Nekropolen, Leipzig, 1898, p. 92, fig. 47; G. H. Karo, De arte vascularia, Bonn, 1896, p. 37, no. 3; Not. Sc., 1930, p. 129, fig. 16, from Tarquinia; Mingazzini, Pl. XXIII, 8.

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