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Hearst Museum object titled Olla, accession number 8-1563, described as Small olla. Description from Matteucig (1951): Jar; height: 14.5 cm; diameter: 14.8 cm (see Matteucig's plate V, 8). Red impasto. Clay red; red, red brown polished surface with black shiny particles. Globular jar with quatrefoil mouth; horizontal, slightly turned-up handles; small flat base. Above each handle, a laminated lead maeander (fig. 8b); between handles, laminated triangles with apex at the base of neck (fig. 8a). Mouth almost entirely restored; numerous cracks on body; laminae almost entirely chipped off, leaving shiny spots and dioxide particles. Cf. Mon. Ant., XXX 1925, col. 639, fig. 28, from Saturnia; Not. Sc., 1915, p. 21, fig. 4b, from Chiusi, Museo Archeologico, Florence, from Poggio Buco and Saturnia; Peabody Museum, Cambridge, Mass., no. 64.827.