Object name: Cup with handle / Object class: Cups (drinking vessels) / Collector: Riccardo Mancinelli Scotti - Hearst Museum Portal Search Results

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Hearst Museum object titled Cup with handle, accession number 8-1510, described as Cup w. spectacle handle. Description from Matteucig (1951): Bowl; height: 6 cm; height, to top of handle, 10.5 cm; diameter: 16 cm. (see Matteucig's plate II, 6). Brown impasto. Clay reddish brown with usual impurities; glossy brown surface; inside, red. Low straight lip; shoulder breaking off sharply against body and neck; low flat foot. Horizontal moulding between lip and shoulder line; over neck and shoulder, three small vertical ribs decorated with tocchi di punta (small incisions produced by a pointed instrument). Vertical double handle, with tocchi di punta on the inside. Small part of lip restored; vase patched together from several pieces; lime incrustations. Cf. Mon. Ant., XXX, 1925, col. 639, fig. 28, from Saturnia, and Mon. Ant., IV, 1894, col. 192, fig. 76, from Narce. The shape is an example of the impasto bowls, with or without handles, common in Etruria proper, in the Faliscan territory, and in the early settlement of the Roman Forum.