Object class: Cups (drinking vessels) / Collection place: Tomb A, Poggio Buco, Tuscany / Culture or time period: Etruscan - Hearst Museum Portal Search Results

Start Over Object class Cups (drinking vessels) Collection place Tomb A, Poggio Buco, Tuscany Culture or time period Etruscan

Hearst Museum object titled Cup, accession number 8-1514, described as Small gray cup 1 h. Description from Matteucig (1951): Kyathos; height: 4.5 cm; height to top of handle, 7.5 cm; diameter: 9.3 cm; diameter: across from handle, 7 cm (see Matteucig's plate II, 10). Clay and surface as in 8-1513. Slightly flaring lip; squat body contracting to small flat bottom. Vertical handle, widening toward point of contact with lip and body; small triangular perforation on handle, just above lip. Diagonal tocchi di punta at base of neck. Vase restored from several pieces; three small parts of lip chipped off and filled out with gray mortar. Cf. Mon. Ant., XXX, 1925, col. 639, fig. 28, from Saturnia; for what may be a bronze prototype, cf. Not. Sc., 1889, PL I, 10, from Felsina.

Hearst Museum object titled Cup, accession number 8-1509, described as Another, similar to 8-1508. Description from Matteucig (1951): Kylix; height: 5.5 cm; diameter: 13.5 cm. (see Matteucig's plate II, 5). Clay, surface, and shape as in 8-1508. Restored from several fragments. Slight lime incrustation.

Hearst Museum object titled Cup, accession number 8-1508, described as Small eared cup. Description from Matteucig (1951): Kylix; height: 6.5 cm; diameter: 14.5 cm. (see Matteucig's plate II, 4). Clay pale buff, well purified; highly polished surface. Low cup with slightly offset rim, two "pinched" vertical handles, perhaps intended to be theriomorphic, (birds' heads?). Low, hollow foot, with a projecting cone in the center. Very well preserved, except for a few chipped-off particles, some lime deposits, and a few splotches of red paint scattered on the surface. The pedigree of this shape is not clear. Boehlau calls a kylix in Berlin which is just like ours a "Greek import," (J.d.L, XV, 1900, p. 169, no. 19), which I doubt. The vase seems closely related to Etruscan metalwork; cf. MUÍ. Greg., Pt. I, PI. XIX, for a silver parallel from Caere, and Montelius, pi. 311, 4, from Falerii, pi. 215, 8, and pi. 339, 4 from the Regolini-Galassi tomb. Cf. J.d.L, XV, 1900, p. 159, fig. 4, i, for a parallel from Poggio Buco. Mancinelli, in his inventory, p. 3, no. 8, says that this is a constant type in tombe a fossa semplice, a type which some times, as in tomb XV, from Sparne, is decorated with red geometric designs. For the latest treatment of these vases, cf. Dohan, PI. XLIX, 16-18, and p. 96.

Hearst Museum object titled Cup, accession number 8-1517, described as Gadrooned cup of b.a. Description from Matteucig (1951): Kantharos; height: 9.5 cm; height to top of handles, 13.5 cm; diameter: 18.3 cm; diameter: between handles, 12 cm (see Matteucig's plate II, 13). Gray bucchero. Clay, surface, shape, and decoration as in 8-1516. Small part of lip restored. Not. Sc., 1898, p. 447, fig. 9, from Poggio Buco, probably represents this vase.

Hearst Museum object titled Cup, accession number 8-1511, described as Gray cup, no handle. Description from Matteucig (1951): Bowl; height: 6 cm; diameter: 17.3 cm (see Matteucig's plate II, 7). Brown impasto. Clay grayish with many black shiny and dull whitish particles; brownish polished surface; inside, and some outside portions, almost black. Shoulder slightly withdrawn below the rim; rounded low sides contracting to flat bottom. Lime incrustations; part of lip chipped off; very heavy. Cf. Mon. Ant., XXXIV, 1931-1932, col. 379, fig. 46 from Populonia.

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.

Hearst Museum object titled Cup with handles, accession number 8-1513, described as Gray cup w. 2 handles. Description from Matteucig (1951): Kantharos; height: 7 cm; height to top of handles, 11 cm; diameter: 15.8 cm; diameter: between handles, 11.5 cm (see Matteucig's plate II, 9). Gray impasto. Clay grayish with many impurities; dark gray polished surface, varying to brown. Low, slightly flaring lip; horizontal moulding joining lip to shoulder; low angular body contracting to flat bottom. Bands of "twisted wire" impressed above, and below moulding. High vertical handles rounded above, flattening out to triangular ribbons at point of contact with rim and body; triangular part of handles decorated with incised triangles filled with lead; other incisions filled with lead on upper and inner sides of handles. Halfway between handles, on shoulder, a small knob in an incised triangle. Between knobs and handles, traces of vertical plaques of lead symmetrically arranged (two between each knob and handle); some lead dioxide and a smooth, shiny surface, is all that remains of this metal decoration. Vase restored from many fragments; small portion of lip chipped off. Cf. Mon. Ant., IV, 1894, col. 205, fig. 93 for shape.