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Hearst Museum object titled Amphora, accession number 8-1866, described as Large Etrusco-Corinthian amphora, repaired. Attributed to the Monte Abatone Painter; ca. 630 BCE. Description from Matteucig (1951): Neck-amphora; height: 42 cm; diameter: 29.5 cm (see Matteucig's plate XX, 15). Italo-Corinthian. Clay white; cream slip; reddish-brown paint. Shape similar to no. 8-1863. Three deep incised lines on lip; neck solid brown, except for a line of cream dots at its base; on flat side of handles, linear decoration consisting of five narrow triangles set base to base between three parallel bands. The upper half of the body is solid red brown; lower half, in the color of the slip, except for three bands. On the middle, traces of three animals going right: a horse, a lion, and a deer. The animals are in the color of the background (red brown) with violet (?) and cream details. Their contours are traced with double in cised lines; between the double lines, cream dots. The horns of the deer, the mane and tail of horse and lion are outlined in the same technique, with additional incised zig zags. Traces of incised floral filling ornaments. The closest parallel I could find is from Poggio Volpaio, tomba a camera no. 6, excavation of 8-1893, a fragmentary amphora in the Museo Archeologico, Florence. For other amphorae, perhaps related to ours, cf. Not. Sc., 1924, p. 409, fig. 3, p. 410, fig. 4, from Tarquinia.

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.

Hearst Museum object titled Amphora, accession number 8-1955, described as Corinthian amphora, white.

Hearst Museum object titled Aryballos, accession number 8-1853, described as Etrusco-Corinthian aryballos, double feline. Description from Matteucig (1951): Aryballos; height: 8 cm; diameter: 7.2 cm (see Matteucig's plate XIX, 8). Italo-Corinthian. Clay light cream, almost white; glossy cream slip; dark brown and violet paint. Round aryballos. On lip, a brown band; around edge of lip, brown dots; two stripes on flat handle; on shoulder, tongue pattern; on body, two panthers conjoined in head, and a duck; usual filling ornaments; details in red paint. Paint peeling off. Cf. Albizzati, Pl. XIII, 146; Critica d’Arte, I, 1935, fig. 23.

Hearst Museum object titled Aryballos, accession number 8-1791, described as Etrusco-Corinthian squat aryballos. Description from Matteucig (1951): Aryballos; height: 8.2 cm; diameter: 6.9 cm (see Matteucig's plate XVI, 10). Italo-Corinthian. Clay red dish cream; pale-cream slip; dark-brown paint. Round aryballos. On lip, three concentric circles; around edge of lip, a row of dots; two horizontal bands on flat handle; on shoulder, tongue pattern; then two lions conjoined in head between two bands; rosettes; behind lions there seems to have been a bird (duck), as shown by incised plumage. Most of the rosettes and filling ornaments have disappeared. Below lion's head, an eight-petal rosette of which only the center can be seen. Cf. Critica à'Arte, I, 1935, fig. 23.

Hearst Museum object titled Aryballos, accession number 8-1794, described as Etrusco-Corinthian aryballos, with tiny foot, similar to 8-1793. Description from Matteucig (1951): Aryballos; height; 10.4 cm; diameter; 5 cm; (see Matteucig's plate XVI, 15). Italo-Corinthian. Clay pale cream; reddish-cream slip; lustrous dark brown and violet paint. Pointed aryballos. On lip, petal pattern; on flat handle, three brown bands; one brown band at base of neck; on shoulder, brown tongue pattern; then three bands, brown, violet, brown; reserved zone with brown leaves; violet band; another reserved zone with brown leaves; three more bands, brown, violet, brown; reserved zone; three narrow brown bands; reserved zone; point and foot solid brown. Cf. Mingazzini, Pl. XXIX, 5.

Hearst Museum object titled Aryballos, accession number 8-1854, described as Etrusco-Corinthian aryballos buff, four geese. Description from Matteucig (1951): Aryballos; height: 7.1 cm; diameter: 6.3 cm (see Matteucig's plate XIX, 9). Italo-Corinthian. Clay, slip, and paint as in no. 1853. Round aryballos. On lip, three concentric circles; around edge of lip, brown dots; two stripes on flat handle; on shoulder, tongue pattern; on body, four geese going right; usual filling ornaments. Paint badly peeled off; about half the lip is broken. Cf. Albizzati, Pl. XIII, 150.

Hearst Museum object titled Aryballos, accession number 8-1795, described as Etrusco-Corinthian aryballos. Description from Matteucig (1951): Aryballos; height; 10 cm; diameter; 5 cm (see Matteucig's plate XVI, 16). Italo-Corinthian. Clay pink cream; cream slip; light brown and violet paint. Pointed aryballos. On lip, three bands, outer ones brown, middle one, violet; edge of lip, brown; on flat handle, three brown bands; brown band at base of neck; on shoulder, tongue pattern; below this, a series of five alternating brown and violet bands, divided by reserved spaces; a reserved space; two narrow brown bands; another reserved space; point and foot solid brown; three incised lines above foot. Cf. Peabody Museum, Cambridge, Mass., no. 40-4269.

Hearst Museum object titled Aryballos, accession number 8-1852, described as Large Etrusco-Corinthian aryballos. Description from Matteucig (1951): Aryballos; height: 10.5 cm; diameter: 10.5 cm (see Matteucig's plate XIX, 7). Italo-Corinthian. Clay pinkish cream; cream slip; dark-brown and violet paint. Round aryballos. On lip, three brown concentric circles; three brown bands on flat handle; on shoulder, tongue pattern; below, brown and violet bands divided by narrow reserved lines. Restored from several fragments; some modern filling.