Object class: Ollas (vessels) / Culture or time period: Ancient Greece / Materials: Ceramic (material) - Hearst Museum Portal Search Results

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Hearst Museum object titled Olla, accession number 8-1577, described as Spherical olla, big. Description from Matteucig (1951): Jar; height: ca. 36 cm; diameter: ca. 36 cm (see Matteucig's plate VI, 3). Impasto type E. Clay dark gray, very porous with numerous sandy particles; red polished surface. Low neck, ovoid body on flat base. Checker decoration in matt cream; red checkers reserved in the color of the polished surface. Vase very fragmentary. Cf. Montelius, pl. 207, 3, from Pitigliano; J.d.I., XV, 1900, p. 168, fig. 10, from Poggio Buco; Dohan, Pl. XLVII, 4, from Vulci.